Freja

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Freja: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Freja: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #232, and it stood at #281 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
36times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#232highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1755
1997	#1450
1998	#1165
1999	#985
2000	#833
2001	#898
2002	#842
2003	#996
2004	#788
2005	#736
2006	#855
2007	#1443
2008	#1065
2009	#1139
2010	#1093
2011	#1438
2012	#1099
2013	#1220
2014	#1501
2015	#1033
2016	#1211
2017	#1144
2018	#1436
2019	#1189
2020	#1100
2021	#901
2022	#963
2023	#1206
2024	#1128

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2025: #281 among girls in Norway, #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1755 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2024–2025
Highest recorded position: #232 among girls in Norway, in 2024 (recorded 2024–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #281 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Freja appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 780 births with the name.

Freja across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Freja's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#1755 (1996)	#736 (2005)	#1128 (2024)	29 of 29	780 (1996–2024)	40 (2005)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#758 (2010)	#727 (2023)	#885 (2025)	4 of 16	14 (2010–2025)	4 (2010)
Norway · Girls	#232 (2024)	#232 (2024)	#281 (2025)	2 of 2	32 (2024–2025)	18 (2024)

Freja by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Freja in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	59	4 of 10	15
2000s	287	10 of 10	29
2010s	272	10 of 10	27
2020sbusiest	162	5 of 10	32

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 32 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Freja appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #232 in Norway in 2024.

Freja's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1128	30	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1206	27	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#963	36	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#901	39	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1100	30	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1189	28	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1436	22	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1144	30	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1211	28	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1033	34	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1501	20	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1220	28	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1099	31	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1438	21	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1093	30	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1139	27	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1065	28	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1443	18	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#855	35	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#736	40	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#788	35	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#996	24	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#842	28	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#898	25	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#833	27	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#985	21	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1165	17	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1450	12	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1755	9	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#281	14	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#232	18	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#727	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#758	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#541	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #232, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 40 births, registered in England and Wales in 2005.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2010, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Freida · #1962, 17y
Freidy · #2340, 16y
Frey · #1825, 17y
Freya · #1, 35y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Annalise · #233, 31y
Connell · #231, 30y
Fern · #233, 32y
Alasdair · #234, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Bentley · #232, 29y
Shannan · #232, 18y
Annalise · #233, 31y
Haniya · #233, 27y

Freja was ranked #232 in Norway · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Freja and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Freja without appearing here.

Freja moved ahead of

Jenny Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1100 and #1100 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #901 and #2499.
Janice Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1755 and #1364 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1450 and #2738.
Sinead Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1436 and #1314 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1189 and #2458.
Tania Compare
In 2011 they stood at #1438 and #1327 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #1099 and #2338.

Moved ahead of Freja

Ada Compare
In 2006 they stood at #855 and #976 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #1443 and #919.
Ida Compare
In 2006 they stood at #855 and #1435 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #1443 and #987.
Blake Compare
In 2015 they stood at #1033 and #1240 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #1211 and #768.
Maja Compare
In 2005 they stood at #736 and #951 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #855 and #456.

Moved the opposite way to Freja

Carol Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Freja went from #1755 to #901 while Carol went from #802 to #3519.
Tyler Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Freja went from #1755 to #901 while Tyler went from #230 to #5581.
Eabha Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Freja went from #788 to #1128 while Eabha went from #4598 to #1262.
Rian Compare
Between 1996 and 2015 in England and Wales · Girls, Freja went from #1755 to #1033 while Rian went from #2350 to #5730.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #232 in Norway in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Freja

Freja at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Freja across 3 official records

Freja by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Freja appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Freja and the names beside it

Freja moved ahead of

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Freja at a glance

Freja across 3 official records

Freja by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Freja appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Freja

Freja and the names beside it

Freja moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Freja

Moved the opposite way to Freja