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How popular is the name Freya?
Births per year, rank history and how many Freyas are alive today.
Freya is one of the ten most popular girls' names in England and Wales, ranked 7th in 2024 with 1,929 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2011, when 2,619 babies were given the name, the 19th most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 2019, with 2,264 babies given the name that year. Numbers have been stable in recent years. At least 50,000 babies have been named Freya in England and Wales since 1996.
The Freya you are most likely to meet is around 15 years old. Half of all Freyas born in England and Wales are between 8 and 20, and there are at least 53,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 15% chance that at least one of them will be called Freya.
How many babies are named Freya each year?
Where does Freya rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Freya most popular?
Freya peaked in 2011, when 2,619 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Freya?
At least 53,000 people named Freya born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Freya?
Most living Freyas are between 8 and 20; the most common age is about 15.
Is Freya becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.