Freja

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Female Female Name

Usage

Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Younger spelling of Freyja [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Related Names

See Freyja

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Freja
Genitive: Frejas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Freja
Genitive: Frejan
Partitive: Frejaa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Freja
Genitive: Frejas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Freja
Genitive: Frejas

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

6 May

Sweden Sweden

23 January

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 89 people were named Freja (percentage of first or only given name: 74 %) [12]
  • Freja was a heavy storm in Denmark an Sweden in November 2015.

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[13]
7085 8503 7072 8490 13 13
Denmark Denmark[11]
11130
n.a.
11128
n.a.
2
n.a.
Finland Finland[14]
n.a.
431
n.a.
431 0 0
Greenland Greenland[15]
15 24
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[16]
3 4
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[17]
161
n.a.
161
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: 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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Freja (f) Sources: [13][11][17][14]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Freja (f) Sources: [18]


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  5. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  7. Danish Family Search, https://www.danishfamilysearch.dk
  8. Digitalarkivet at arkivverket.no, http://www.arkivverket.no
  9. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  13. 13.0 13.1 13.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  14. 14.0 14.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  15. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  16. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  17. 17.0 17.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  18. details see Name Statistic tables