Freyah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- FRAY-a
- Origin
- Old Norse
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Freyah is a girls' name of Old Norse origin, meaning “lady”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Freyah mean?
Old Norse: spelling of Freya
“lady”
Variant spelling of Freya, the Norse goddess of love.
Is Freyah a girl's or a boy's name?
Freyah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Freyah in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2013, with 19 girls.
Half of all the girls named Freyah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2012 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Freyah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 15 | #1,955 |
| 2022 | 6 | #3,728 |
| 2021 | 8 | #3,082 |
| 2020 | 15 | #1,948 |
| 2019 | 8 | #3,018 |
| 2018 | 13 | #2,198 |
| 2017 | 9 | #2,864 |
| 2016 | 14 | #2,111 |
| 2015 | 17 | #1,813 |
| 2014 | 10 | #2,618 |
| 2013 | 19 | #1,662 |
| 2012 | 16 | #1,914 |
| 2011 | 11 | #2,393 |
| 2010 | 6 | #3,715 |
| 2009 | 8 | #2,909 |
| 2008 | 6 | #3,589 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 8 | #2,657 |
| 2005 | 3 | #4,976 |
| 2004 | 8 | #2,406 |
How popular is Freyah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #14,937among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Freyah, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,846th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 20 girls. It first appears in the records in 2014.
2025 had fewer girls named Freyah than any year since 2018.
Half of all the girls named Freyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 2,152 girls in the US were given Freyah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #165, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.
Freyah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,156 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,611 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,674 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,846 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 17 | #6,898 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
Names like Freyah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ayra Fiadh Safa Ayah Nusaybah Zainab Ayzal Hafsa Isla Rehmat Irha Aiza
Other spellings of Freyah
More Old Norse names
Ronnie Ralph Eric Astrid Colby Rafe Odin Ralphie Erik Erick Bo Ronald Bjorn Erica Raife Ivar
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Freyah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/freyah, updated 20 October 2026.