Freyja
Freyja was given to 352 girls in 2025, #772 among girls’ names; 3,858 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,840 Americans named Freyja and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 9.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Freyja by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Freyja?
#772 among girls’ names, 2025
Freyja rose from #1,569 in 2015 to #772 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.08 to 0.22 per 1,000.
473 babies in 2023, the peak
Freyja peaked in 2023, when 473 girls were given it, #628 among girls’ names. The 352 births of 2025 are 74% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 352 | #772 | 0.22 |
| 2024 | 368 | #768 | 0.23 |
| 2023 | 473 | #628 | 0.29 |
| 2022 | 467 | #631 | 0.28 |
| 2021 | 407 | #708 | 0.25 |
| 2020 | 269 | #951 | 0.17 |
| 2019 | 260 | #994 | 0.15 |
| 2018 | 237 | #1,073 | 0.14 |
| 2017 | 223 | #1,125 | 0.13 |
| 2016 | 185 | #1,297 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 140 | #1,569 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 109 | #1,857 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 80 | #2,312 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,388 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 45 | #3,511 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,779 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,516 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,334 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,172 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,490 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,032 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,455 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,255 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,461 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,773 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,918 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,485 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,235 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,159 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Freyja a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Freyja has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Freyja: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Freyja, and how old are they?
3,840 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,858 Americans ever recorded as Freyja. The median Freyja alive today is 5 years old; half are between 3 and 9.
The 2020 Census counted 1,442 people named Freyja (1,440 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,580 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 10 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 276 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,550 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Freyja born?
The states with the most babies named Freyja are Texas, California and Minnesota, with 24% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 23 | #1,170 | 0.5× |
| California | 22 | #1,160 | 0.7× |
| Minnesota | 21 | #267 | 1.8× |
| Ohio | 18 | #572 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 17 | #926 | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 16 | #496 | 0.9× |
| New York | 15 | #995 | 0.7× |
| Washington | 14 | #487 | 2.1× |
| Michigan | 13 | #606 | 1.3× |
| Colorado | 12 | #474 | 1.3× |
Where Freyja is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Freyja is most over-represented in Oregon: since 1994 it was given 2.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Freyja with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,414 babies since 1880, Freyja is the most given (87% of them). In 2025 it was given to 352 of their 389 babies (90%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Freyja
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Freyja and names like it
- Compare Freyja and FrejaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sFreyja peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Freyja since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Freyja.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Freyja alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with FMost given first.