Freyja

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Freyja is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name21 records spelled Freyja57 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Australia, United Kingdom, United States, Denmark

  Languages: English, Danish, Finnish

  Also written Freya, Furuya, ฟีรยา, ฟิรยา, Fureeya

35 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Freyja is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, Scandinavian fertility goddess

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• In English, Scandinavian weather god

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• In English, Freyr [Frey]

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• In English, A deity among the Vanir associated with sex, death, and seiðr, who receives half of those who die in battle in the afterlife field Fólkvangr (the other half going to Odin's hall, Valhalla), and whose brother is Freyr.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In non, Freya, goddess associated with sex, death, and magic (see Freyja)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 29 years between 1994–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Freyja Haraldsdóttirb. 1986ISIcelandic politician
• Audrey Freyja Clarkeb. 1987ISIcelandic figure skater

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 250 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Freyja?

We estimate roughly 3.5 thousand people bear Freyja (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Freyja have the most bearers?

We estimate about 1.4 thousand people bear Freyja in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled freyja.

Where is Freyja most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Freyja is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 352 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is Freyja compared with other names?

In Iceland, Freyja is the 179th most common given name of 4,856 given names recorded there.

Is Freyja a male or female name?

Freyja is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Freyja mean?

Recorded meaning: Freyja or Freya, a goddess associated with sex, death, and magic