Freyr

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Male Male Name

Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Iceland Icelandic

Origin and Meaning

Old Norse *frauja = 'master, lord' (see FREJ) [1]

Related Names

     
Frei ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Norwegian Swedish
Freia ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Norwegian Swedish
Freij ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Swedish
Freija ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Swedish
Frej ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Swedish
Freja ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Finnish Norwegian Swedish
Frey ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Swedish
Freya ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Norwegian Swedish
Freyja ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Icelandic Norwegian Old Norse
Freyr ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Icelandic Old Norse
Froya ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Faroese
Frö ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Old Swedish
Frø ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Old Swedish
Fröa ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Swedish
Fröja ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Swedish
Frøy ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Norwegian
Frøy ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Norwegian
Frøya ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Norwegian

Combinations

For combinations see FREJ (name element)

Further Information

Mythology

Freyr is the god of fertility. He is the son of Njǫrðr and his sister. Frey is the brother of Freyja. His wife is the giantess Gerðr and they have a son named Fjǫlnir.

He has three servants: Skírnir, Byggvir and Beyla, a boar named Gullinbursti (= golden bristles) or Slíðrugtanni (= with terrible teeth), and a ship Skíðblaðnir (= made of wooden planks). He lives in Alfheimr.

According to the poem Sólarljóð, he has two (half?)sisters named Ráðveig and Kreppvǫr and 7 more (half?)sisters (no names given, maybe one of them is his twin sister Freyja).

He is also known as Yngvi-Freyr. [2] [3] [4]

Statistics

Name count per country
CountryCommonnessFemale ♀ Male ♂
Statimg f legend.pngStatimg m legend.pngas main name#also aux. name&as main name#also aux. name&
Sweden Sweden[5] Statimg f0.pngStatimg m2.png 0 0 14 84
Denmark Denmark[6] Statimg f0.pngStatimg m2.png 0 n.a. 6 n.a
Norway Norway[7] Statimg f0.pngStatimg m2.png 0 0 6 7
Finland Finland[8] Statimg f1.pngStatimg m1.png n.a. 5 n.a 5
  #: 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 Freyr.

Sources: [5] [6] [7] [8]

References

  1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)
  3. ↑ Lars Magnar Enoksen: Norrøne guder og myter (2008)
  4. ↑ Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
  5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
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