Freyja

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Female Name

Usage

Old Norse
Icelandic
Norwegian

Origin and Meaning

Old Norse and Icelandic female form of Freyr ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Related Names

See Freyr

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Freyja
Accusative:	Freyju
Dative:	Freyju
Genitive:	Freyju

Further Information

Mythology

In the Nordic mythology, Freyja is a Vanir goddess, the goddess of love. When she cries, her tears are golden. She is the daughter of Njǫrðr and his sister. Her twin brother is Freyr. With her husband Óðr she has two daughters: Hnoss and Gersemi. ^[2]

According to the poem Sólarljóð, she has two (half?)sisters named Ráðveig and Kreppvǫr and 6 more (half?)sisters (no names given). ^[3]

Other names for Freyja according to Snorri Sturlusson's Prose Edda are: Vanabrúðr, Vanadís, Mardǫll, Hǫrn, Gefn and Syr. ^[3]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[5]		50	n.a.	0	n.a
Sweden[6]		42	58	0	0
Norway[7]		9	22	0	0
Finland[8]		n.a.	3	n.a	3
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Freyja.

Sources: ^{[6] [5] [7] [8]}

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Lars Magnar Enoksen: Norrøne guder og myter (2008)
3. ↑ Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
4. ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
7. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi