Freya derived from Old Norse Freyja meaning ‘lady’. This is the name of a goddess associated with love, beauty, war and death in Norse mythology.
Freya is a female first name.
The name Freya isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Freya ranks 272. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 7 were named Freya. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Freya.
The name Freya may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Freya is apparently especially popular in Alaska. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 3,526 women in Alaska is called Freya. In total, that’s 54 women who feel addressed when the name Freya is shouted loudly across Alaska and who ensure that their name makes it to #467 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Freya as the answer a total of 12,566 times. This places Freya at #1,109 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Freya as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter F is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 1.2% of all common girls' names in the US begin with an F. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With five letters, the name Freya is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 1.2% of all girls' names begin with an F, this initial letter is significantly less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with F that are quite popular, the most common at present is Frances.
If your name is Freya and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Freya, you can simply say:
Fox
Rocket
Elephant
Yoyo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Freya
Freya
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
F
R
E
Y
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
F
R
E
Y
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Freya sounds like this:
