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Freyr

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Male Male Name

Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Old Norse *frauja = 'master', 'lord' (see FREJ) [1] [2]

2) Old Norse *freyr, Proto-Norse *fraiwia = 'fertile' [2]

Related Names

Frei ♂
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Freij ♂
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Frej ♂
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 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Frey ♂
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 Danish Finish Swedish
Freyr ♂
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 Icelandic Old Norse
Frö ♂
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 Old Swedish
Frø ♂
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 Old Swedish
Frøy ♂
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 Norwegian

See also Frøis

For female forms see Freyja

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Freysson Iceland

Female

Freysdóttir Iceland

Combinations

For combinations see FREJ (name element)

Grammar

Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Freyr
Accusative: Frey
Dative: Frey
Genitive: Freys

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Norse Mythology

Freyr's Names

Freyr's Siblings

  • Freyja - twin or halfsister
  • Kreppvǫr - (half?)sister according to the poem Sólarljóð
  • Ráðveig - (half?)sister according to the poem Sólarljóð
  • 7 more (half?)sisters according to the poem Sólarljóð

Freyr's Servants

Freyr's Attributes

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[5]
175 3003
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[6]
21 130 0 0 21 130
Denmark Denmark[7]
11
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 11
n.a.
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
 11 0 0
n.a.
 11
Norway Norway[9]
10
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 10
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Freyr.


References

  1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  3. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  4. ↑ Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  5. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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