Freya

What Freya means

Means “mistress, lady”

Scottish form of Old Norse Freyja (“mistress, lady”).

Source: Wiktionary, “Freya” (revision 86878510), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Freya?

US: Rising: up from #415 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #21 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2022, when 2,183 girls got the name (#129 that year). First in the US records in 1931.

How common

• About 1 in 921 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 141 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 67 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in AK (7.86 per 1,000 girls), VT (7.19 per 1,000 girls), WY (6.17 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Freya is #176 in the US and #6 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Freya were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Fraya12 US · 7 E&W
• Freyah5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Freya

Girls

• Maren#470Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #470 vs #5,927 in 2025
• Mia#6Editor’s note Steady in the US: #6 in 2015 and #6 in 2025. About 1 in 150 US girls in the 2025 records
• Annika#995Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2003, with 1,089 babies; 254 in 2025
• Emilia#45Variant of Emily, meaning “rival, emulator”^*
• Eleanor#12possibly “other”^*
• Aurora#15Italian, from Latin Aurōra, meaning “dawn, sunrise”^*

For a brother

• Anders#984Editor’s note Down from #796 in 2015 to #984 in 2025 in the US
• Soren#464Editor’s note Up from #574 in 2015 to #464 in 2025 in the US
• Finn#206“the Sami”^*
• Harold#991“army + ruler, authority”^*
• Erik#545Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1980, with 4,918 babies; 549 in 2025
• Leo#19“lion”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Scandinavian & Norse where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Freya’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.