Freya

#176 for girls in 2025, 1,746 births

Peak · girls
2022 · 2,183 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
19,821
since 1931

Freya over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Freya has never cracked the top 100 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201931girlsat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#1761,746
2024#1601,883
2023#1362,074
2022#1292,183
2021#1521,869
2020#1781,599
2019#1991,521
2018#2661,240
2017#3051,078
2016#329999
2015#415770
2014#584517
2013#910281
2012#1,299182
2011#1,173207
2010#1,392165
2009#1,742125
2008#1,740127
2007#1,886110
2006#2,03197
2005#2,55367
2004#2,67961
2003#2,73757
2002#3,14645
2001#2,92449
2000#3,73834
1999#4,44525
1998#4,95521
1997#5,86816
1996#4,88320
1995#4,34823
1994#5,98415
1993#7,03812
1992#4,84920
1991#5,00419
1990#8,5019
1989
1988#5,59814
1987#4,28319
1986#6,61210
1985#5,07714
1984#6,8109
1983#8,0477
1982#4,94514
1981#4,34417
1980#4,32717
1979#4,62615
1978#4,93113
1977#5,53211
1976#5,21511
1975#3,25921
1974#3,86316
1973#5,19110
1972#3,40418
1971#6,6197
1970#5,4139
1969#4,41811
1968#4,48910
1967#5,4577
1966#5,2737
1965#5,8176
1964#5,0088
1963#6,5925
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1959#4,6258
1958#3,54312
1957#3,93010
1956#4,4678
1955
1954#4,6557
1953#4,5957
1952
1951#3,28411
1950#4,3157
1949#5,2445
1948#3,8838
1947#2,27919
1946#3,4309
1945#2,33914
1944#2,94610
1943#2,55813
1942#1,49730
1941#1,38431
1940#1,47727
1939#3,1458
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First appearance
1931

The first year at least five girls were named Freya! It came in at #4,331, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1931–1938, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Freya
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 16 spots since 2024 (#160#176)
  • 2 spots since 2020 (#178#176)
  • 239 spots since 2015 (#415#176)
  • Biggest jump: 389 spots in 2013 (#1,299#910)
  • Biggest drop: 24 spots in 2024 (#136#160)
Rise & fade · girls
91 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1931
  • Peaked 2022 at #129 (2,183 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 13 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 2013–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 751
  • Highest: 1 in 751 girls born in 2022 were named Freya (0.13%)
  • Latest: 1 in 921 girls born in 2025 (0.11%)
Era · girls
The 2020s
  • 57.3% of all girls named Freya (11,354) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1930s13#3,145 (1939)#3,738
1940s166#1,384 (1941)#2,704
1950s70#3,284 (1951)#4,177
1960s54#4,418 (1969)#5,293
1970s131#3,259 (1975)#4,805
1980s121#4,283 (1987)#5,560
1990s180#4,348 (1995)#5,588
2000s772#1,740 (2008)#2,518
2010s6,960#199 (2019)#687
2020s11,354#129 (2022)#155

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Freya in 1931

girls
#4,331
5 births · 1 in 212,946 girls

Top girls' names in 1931

  1. #1Mary60,299
  2. #2Betty36,105
  3. #3Dorothy26,524
  4. #4Barbara21,804
  5. #5Joan19,119
  6. #6Helen17,664
  7. #7Margaret17,332
  8. #8Patricia16,469
  9. #9Shirley14,405
  10. #10Doris13,629
  11. #4,331Freya5
More about 1931

girls

1,064,728 girls got a published name in 1931; 1 in 212,946 of them was named Freya, which outranked 13.0% of the 4,979 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Freya
  1. #3,848Zelphia6
  2. #3,848Zoa6
  3. #3,848Zoie6
  4. #4,331Freya5
  5. #4,331Adalene5
  6. #4,331Adean5
  7. #4,331Adelma5

Tied with 648 names at #4,331; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1930
Risers
  1. 857Joretta#1,320#463
  2. 519Joetta#1,460#941
  3. 483Sondra#1,031#548
  4. 465Celine#1,460#995
  5. 343Lynne#1,274#931
Fallers
  1. 377Margo#937#1,314
  2. 349Rachael#894#1,243
  3. 317Evelyne#926#1,243
  4. 287Vivien#971#1,258
  5. 283Ardeth#629#912

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1931