Girl name#983 of girl names
Freya
Pronounced F R EY1 AH0 (ARPABET)
- 2 syllables
- Peaked 2022
- 94 years in use
How popular is Freya?
Freya is a girls' name, and first appears in 1931. It has been given to 18,062 children — the 983rd most common girls' name on record.
It is climbing hard: about eight times as many births in the past decade as in the one before it. Its best single year was 2022, when 2,182 children were given it.
Characteristics
- 2 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- F R EY1 AH0
- Stress pattern:
- 10
- Syllables:
- 2
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Freya
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Freya
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Freya?
- Freya ranks 983rd among girls' names in US records, with 18,062 births since 1931. Over the past decade it accounts for 15,203.
- Is Freya a unisex name?
- No. Freya is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Freya most popular?
- 2022, when 2,182 children were given the name. It has been in use for 94 years and is still recorded as of 2024.