Fréja
surname · Latin script
Fréja is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Norse Freyja, from Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ.
- DKDenmark1 in 464(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 11K
- NONorway1 in 22K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 464 (inferred from the name graph)
12,649 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Freja in SE Sweden.
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)- Old NorseFreyja(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*frawjǭ(measured from records)
From Old Norse Freyja, from Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Fréja 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.
12,649 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fréja mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Norse Freyja, from Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ. Recorded by Wiktionary and Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon and 1 other source.
- In which country does Fréja have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Fréja, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Fréja most common?
- Fréja is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 464 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Fréja?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 12,649 people named Fréja, about 1 in 464 residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fr%C3%A9jaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Fréja”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.