Freyja

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Iceland Icelandic
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Faroe Islands Faroese
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Old Norse and Icelandic female form of Freyr (see also -a) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

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Fraja
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Freia
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Freija
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Freja
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Freya
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Freyja
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Froya
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Fröa
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Fröja
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Frøy
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Frøya
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Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Freyjuson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Freyjudóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Freyja
Genitive: Freyjas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Freyja
Accusative: Freyju
Dative: Freyju
Genitive: Freyju
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Freyja
Genitive: Freyjan
Partitive: Freyjaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Freyja
Accusative: Freyju
Dative: Freyju
Genitive: Freyju
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Freyja
Genitive: Freyjas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Freyja
Genitive: Freyjas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Norse Mythology

  • Freyja is a Vanir goddess (Snorri included her in his list of Ásynjur as well), the goddess of love. When she cries, her tears are golden. She is the daughter of Njǫrðr and his sister. Her husband is Óðr.

Freyja's Names

Freyja's Siblings

  • Freyr - twin brother or half brother
  • Kreppvǫr - (half?)sister according to the poem Sólarljóð
  • Ráðveig - (half?)sister according to the poem Sólarljóð
  • 6 more (half?)sisters (no names given) according to the poem Sólarljóð

Freyja's Children

  • Hnoss
  • Gersemi

[3] [2]

Trivia

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&
Iceland Iceland[9]
539 792
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[10]
170 223 170 223 0 0
Denmark Denmark[11]
118
n.a.
118
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[12]
n.a.
32
n.a.
32 0 0
Norway Norway[13]
97
n.a.
97
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[14]
0 0
n.a.
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 Freyja (f) Sources: [10][11][13][12]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Freyja (f) Sources: [15]


References

  1. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Lars Magnar Enoksen: Norrøne guder og myter (2008)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
  4. Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
  5. Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  6. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  7. 7.0 7.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  8. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  9. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  10. 10.0 10.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  11. 11.0 11.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  12. 12.0 12.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  13. 13.0 13.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  14. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  15. details see Name Statistic tables