How Many People Are Named Freyja?

3,837

people named Freyja are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 89,076 people in the US has this name

Based on 3,858 babies named Freyja in Social Security records from 1994 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#4,413

πŸ’ŽπŸ’Ž Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#2,488

See the top 100

Peak Year

2023

473 births

Trend

β†’

Stable (last 10 years)

πŸ“– Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Icelandic, Norse Mythology
Pronunciation: FRAY-ya (Icelandic), FRAY-Ι™ (English)
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Icelandic and Old Norse form of FREYA.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Freyja in English. Counting Freyja and these spellings together, about 23,435 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

FrejaBRITISHFreyaFreyaFreaFrΓΈyaFrejFreyrFrey

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Freyja in the records were girls.

πŸ‘₯ Age Distribution

The average person named Freyja alive today is about 5 years old, and 100% are under 30. Half of them were between 2 and 8 in 2025.

Under 30 3,832
99.9%
30 to 59 5
0.1%
60 and over 0
0%

πŸ“ˆ Popularity Over Time

Freyja first appears in the records in 1994 and was given most often in 2023, to 473 babies. In 2025, 352 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1994 to 2025

πŸ† Rank History

Freyja has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #628, in 2023. In 2025 it ranked #772.

Girls
Rank in 2025#772
Best rank#628 (2023)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#731 in the 2020s

πŸ“ State-Wise Distribution

People named Freyja alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Freyja were born in California than in any other state: about 319 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Freyja was given 4.6 times as often in Oregon, 3 times in Washington and 2.8 times in Minnesota.

California 319
Texas 193
Washington 187
New York 163
Florida 150
Michigan 145
Minnesota 133
Oregon 132
Indiana 109
Wisconsin 107
Ohio 103
Virginia 99
Illinois 94
Colorado 92
Pennsylvania 83
North Carolina 77
Missouri 69
Georgia 67
Tennessee 57
Utah 55
Arizona 55
Oklahoma 42
Massachusetts 36
Nevada 31
Kansas 30
Kentucky 28
Iowa 26
Maryland 26
New Jersey 24
Montana 21
Idaho 19
West Virginia 18
Alabama 16
Maine 16
Nebraska 15
Arkansas 15
North Dakota 10
South Carolina 10
Alaska 8
Connecticut 5
South Dakota 5
Louisiana 5

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