Frèya

given name · Latin script

Frèya is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Scottish form of Old Norse Freyja (“mistress, lady”).

rarermore common
  • DKDenmark1 in 2K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 5.5K
  • NONorway1 in 12K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

8,353 people, 2020

Sources
61 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Freya in US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

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

Sources 4

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Frèya counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Frèya is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States8,3531 in 40K8.3KFreya28
DK Denmark2,9121 in 2K2.9K——
SE Sweden1,8661 in 5.5K1.9K——
ES Spain4771 in 105K477—1
NO Norway4441 in 12K1.4K——
FI Finland4311 in 13K540——
IS Iceland161 in 22K16——

8,353 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Frèya under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Frèya mean, and where does it come from?
Scottish form of Old Norse Freyja (“mistress, lady”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and The African book of names and 2 other sources.
Is Frèya a male or female name?
Frèya 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.
In which country does Frèya have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 8.4 thousand people named Frèya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled freya.
Where is Frèya most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Frèya is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 2.0 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Frèya?
In the United States, the national register counted 8,353 people named Frèya in 2020, about 1 in 40 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Frèya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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