Freya

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Female Name

Usage

Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Icelandic
Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Variant spelling of Freja

Related Names

See Freyja

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Freyuson

Female

Freyudóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Freya
Genitive:	Freyas

- Finnish
Nominative:	Freya
Genitive:	Freyan
Partitive:	Freyaa

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Freya
Accusative:	Freyu
Dative:	Freyu
Genitive:	Freyu

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Freya
Genitive:	Freyas

- Swedish
Nominative:	Freya
Genitive:	Freyas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark:
  • 20th century
• Iceland:
  • Officially rejected as a given name on 24 June 2010
  • Officially approved as a given name on 5 September 2022

Strongest Period of Usage

• Denmark: 1970-

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&
Denmark		2485	n.a.	2485	n.a.	0	n.a.
Sweden		956	1126	953	1122	3	4
Finland		n.a.	286	n.a.	286	0	0
Greenland		10	16	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Iceland		7	10	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		269	n.a.	269	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.

 

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