Freya
The 2025 national count puts Freya at #176, right at the top of its own curve. Its record runs from 1931 through a 2022 peak, 19,821 children in all.
Freya’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Freya, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Freya since 1931
Freya peaked in 2022 at #129; #176 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Freya is most common
By share of a state's recorded girls' names, Freya runs strongest in Alaska at 0.79% in 2025, then Vermont and Wyoming.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Freya
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Finn
#206 in 2025 · Celtic
Felix
#175 in 2025 · Latin
Max
#180 in 2025 · Latin
Blair
#169 in 2025
Jett
#169 in 2025
Rhett
#188 in 2025
Hayes
#162 in 2025
Kaia
#193 in 2025
Browse: names starting with F · all names
About Freya
How popular is the name Freya?
The 2025 national count puts Freya at #176, right at the top of its own curve. The chart above draws the whole run since 1931, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What is the recorded meaning of Freya?
The 1884 reference we quote from has no entry for Freya. Rather than borrow a gloss from somewhere we cannot cite, the page leaves the meaning blank and lets the chart speak.
Which names sit near Freya?
Nearest by the published recipe: Finn, Felix and Max. The sibling matcher scores every common American name against the ones you already have.
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