Girls' name · since 2021
Freyia
Since 2021, U.S. Social Security records show 17 babies named Freyia, peaking in 2022. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- #47,709 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 17
- born since 2021
- 2020s
- peak decade
17 girls have been named Freyia since 2021, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Freyia has 17 recorded births among girls since 2021, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2021 to 2023.
- #47,709 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 17 born since 2021
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Freyia ranks #47,709 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 17 born since 2021, peaking in the 2020s.
- #47,709 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 17
- born since 2021
- 2020s
- peak decade
Freyia's 17 recorded births place it above 33.2% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Freyia's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Freyia's full recorded timeline at 2022, 71% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 29% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2021, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2022 peak of 7 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Freyia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2021–2023
- Peak year (2022)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 3 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000, last recorded 2023.
17 total births across 3 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2022 with 7 births in a single year.
Freyia by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (17 births, 100% of the file).
2020s was Freyia's strongest decade.
17 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Freyia births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2020s
2020s
17 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 17 births (100% of all-time use).
Freyia decade highlights
- Peak decade 17 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
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Two nationwide peer axes for Freyia: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2022)
Similar record span (~2 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2021–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Freyia draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.
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