Freyja

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Freyja: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #162 in 2022, and it stood at #483 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
49times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#162highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1364
1997	#1543
1998	#1259
1999	#1557
2000	#897
2001	#962
2002	#962
2003	#844
2004	#804
2005	#866
2006	#928
2007	#836
2008	#722
2009	#717
2010	#840
2011	#673
2012	#768
2013	#699
2014	#563
2015	#570
2016	#522
2017	#420
2018	#467
2019	#448
2020	#426
2021	#313
2022	#294
2023	#291
2024	#358

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 2024: #196 among girls in Scotland, #212 among girls in Northern Ireland, #358 among girls in England and Wales, #736 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 #1364 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 recorded2014–2024
Highest recorded position: #162 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2022 (recorded 2014–2024).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #483 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Freyja 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 1,792 births with the name.

Freyja 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.

Freyja'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	#1364 (1996)	#291 (2023)	#358 (2024)	29 of 29	1,792 (1996–2024)	152 (2022)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#689 (2005)	#483 (2025)	#483 (2025)	13 of 21	64 (2005–2025)	7 (2022)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#439 (2014)	#162 (2022)	#212 (2024)	6 of 11	40 (2014–2024)	12 (2022)

Freyja 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 Freyja in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	50	4 of 10	13
2000s	335	10 of 10	34
2010s	731	10 of 10	73
2020sbusiest	676	5 of 10	135

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 135 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2020 and 2021, when recorded births rose by 50, from 100 to 150.

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

Freyja 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: #162 in Northern Ireland in 2022.

Freyja'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	#358	123	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#291	151	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#294	152	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#313	150	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#426	100	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#448	94	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#467	92	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#420	105	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#522	82	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#570	75	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#563	75	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#699	57	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#768	51	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#673	58	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#840	42	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#717	51	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#722	49	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#836	38	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#928	31	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#866	32	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#804	34	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#844	31	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#962	23	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#962	22	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#897	24	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1557	11	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1259	15	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1543	11	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1364	13	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#212	8	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#209	8	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#162	12	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#313	5	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#358	4	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#483	7	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#736	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#555	6	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#502	7	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#586	6	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#551	6	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#579	6	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#584	6	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#758	4	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#893	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#689	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#196	19	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
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 #162, first reached in 2022.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 152 births, registered in England and Wales in 2022.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2005, 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.

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Frida · #5, 69y

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.

Drew · #163, 32y
Macy · #161, 28y
Emelia · #164, 30y
Josie · #160, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Aleena · #162, 30y
Ayah · #162, 30y
Zoya · #162, 29y
Cohan · #163, 25y

Freyja was ranked #162 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2022. 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.

Freyja 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 Freyja without appearing here.

Freyja moved ahead of

Janice Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1364 and #1364 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1543 and #2738.
Pauline Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1557 and #1473 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #897 and #1594.
Suzanne Compare
In 2005 they stood at #866 and #745 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #928 and #1585.
Carmel Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1557 and #1160 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #897 and #1475.

Moved ahead of Freyja

Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #673 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #768 and #284.
Mila Compare
In 2005 they stood at #866 and #931 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #928 and #649.
Olive Compare
In 2005 they stood at #866 and #1012 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #928 and #816.
Aria Compare
In 2009 they stood at #717 and #1248 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #840 and #773.

Moved the opposite way to Freyja

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Freyja went from #1364 to #358 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Freyja went from #1364 to #358 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Freyja went from #1364 to #358 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Freyja went from #1364 to #358 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Freyja

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Freyja went from #1364 to #358 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Freyja went from #1364 to #358 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Freyja went from #1364 to #358 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Freyja went from #1364 to #358 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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: #162 in Northern Ireland in 2022. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Freyja

Freyja at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Freyja across 3 official records

Freyja by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Freyja appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Freyja at a glance

Freyja across 3 official records

Freyja by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Freyja 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 Freyja

Freyja and the names beside it

Freyja moved ahead of

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