Fréya
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Fréya is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Scottish form of Old Norse Freyja (“mistress, lady”).
- AUAustralia≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 23K
- USUnited States1 in 40K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Fréya itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 254 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Freya in DK Denmark, SE Sweden, GB United Kingdom and 5 more.
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
- A concise dictionary of first names
- The African book of names
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fréya 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Freya | 35 |
| DK Denmark | 12,649as Freja | 1 in 464 | 13K | Freya | 71 |
| SE Sweden | 11,544as Freja | 1 in 884 | 12K | Freya | 18 |
| US United States | 8,353 | 1 in 40K | 8.3K | Freya | 254 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 1.9K | Freya | 201 |
| AU Australia | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 423 | Freya | 142 |
| FI Finland | 488as Freja | 1 in 11K | 570 | Freya | 9 |
| NO Norway | 444 | 1 in 12K | 1.4K | Freya | 14 |
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); ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); 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). 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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fréya 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 Fréya a male or female name?
- Fréya 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 Fréya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Fréya in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled freya.
- Where is Fréya most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Fréya is densest in Norway — about 1 in 12 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Fréya?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,353 people named Fréya in 2020, about 1 in 40 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fr%C3%A9yaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Fréya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.