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Freyr

#10,018 in 2025Boys' name

Lord

Freyr has been given to 49 babies in the U.S. since 2018. In 2025 it ranked #10,018 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Freyr, 2025

1 in 474,000

Freyr over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Freyr: meaning, origin, and history

Lord

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Freyr means

Freyr means “lord”.

Origin, language, and formation

Freyr is used in Icelandic.

Freyr comes through Old Norse Freyr.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Icelandic, Freyr is pronounced [ˈfreiːr].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 49 boys were recorded with the name Freyr between 2018 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2024; its best national rank was #8,545 in 2024.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Freyr?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,018
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Freyr sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Freyr. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Freyrs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Freyr was born before 2022 — so the typical Freyr is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
73.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
49
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 73.5% of all recorded uses (36).

Is Freyr rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,473
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
77.8%
Peak was 2024 (9)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,545
2024

Spellings of Freyr

Freyr is not the most common spelling — Fred is, with 84.6% against Freyr's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Freyr around the world

Where Freyr ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    2008–2008
    #726
    in 2008

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Freyr by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,018
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#8,545
2024
Peak year
2024
9 that year
First recorded
2018
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
49
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Freyr

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Freyr

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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