Meaning not yet researched.
Freya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,746 in 2025. Its best rank was #129 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #129 in 2022; #176 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Freya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#176 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #129.
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Freya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,746 girls in 2025. Peak: #129 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 2,183 (2022).
In 2025, 1,746 US girls were named Freya, making it the 176th most common girls’ name of the year, down 16 places from #160 in 2024. That is 137 fewer than the 1,883 girls named Freya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #129, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,183. For comparison, it was #416 in 2015 and #4,454 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Freya in 82 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1931 with 5 babies. In all, 19,821 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 11,354 babies named Freya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 16,192 US girls were named Freya; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 2,183. In 2025 that was about 1 in 921 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Freya ranked highest in Alaska in 2025, at #33 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 11 states (counting DC). Rarer spellings such as Free, Freyah and Frey are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Free (132), Freyah (109), Frey (80), Freyia (17), Freia (5), Freiya (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Freya in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 2 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | 13 | #33 | — |
| Vermont | 7 | #60 | — |
| Montana | 13 | #67 | #237 |
| North Dakota | 12 | #75 | #140 |
| Washington | 76 | #78 | #150 |
| Hawaii | 9 | #82 | — |
| Maine | 12 | #86 | — |
| West Virginia | 17 | #86 | — |
| Wyoming | 5 | #87 | — |
| Oregon | 36 | #88 | #203 |
| Wisconsin | 50 | #94 | #294 |
| Minnesota | 48 | #102 | #167 |
| Iowa | 28 | #112 | #256 |
| Missouri | 50 | #114 | #403 |
| Indiana | 54 | #121 | #454 |
| South Dakota | 9 | #123 | — |
| Colorado | 44 | #123 | #285 |
| Pennsylvania | 83 | #125 | #489 |
| Kentucky | 35 | #125 | #474 |
| New Hampshire | 10 | #127 | #172 |
| Delaware | 7 | #128 | — |
| Michigan | 63 | #133 | #330 |
| Virginia | 55 | #139 | #379 |
| Kansas | 23 | #140 | #344 |
| Nebraska | 16 | #142 | — |
| Arkansas | 20 | #144 | #461 |
| Nevada | 17 | #145 | #480 |
| Utah | 30 | #149 | #298 |
| Idaho | 14 | #149 | #395 |
| Rhode Island | 6 | #161 | #208 |
| Alabama | 26 | #170 | — |
| Ohio | 65 | #171 | #417 |
| North Carolina | 60 | #174 | #442 |
| Oklahoma | 22 | #177 | — |
| Florida | 94 | #195 | #452 |
| Massachusetts | 28 | #200 | #308 |
| Mississippi | 13 | #206 | #511 |
| Maryland | 25 | #206 | #431 |
| Connecticut | 16 | #210 | #412 |
| Tennessee | 37 | #212 | #386 |
| Arizona | 32 | #215 | #373 |
| Illinois | 44 | #233 | #488 |
| California | 145 | #233 | #516 |
| New York | 69 | #245 | #443 |
| South Carolina | 20 | #251 | #537 |
| Georgia | 41 | #252 | #748 |
| New Jersey | 27 | #307 | #546 |
| Texas | 104 | #325 | #784 |
| Louisiana | 11 | #406 | #502 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,746 | #176 | — | — |
| 2024 | 1,883 | #160 | — | — |
| 2023 | 2,074 | #136 | — | — |
| 2022 | 2,183 | #129 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,869 | #152 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,599 | #178 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,521 | #199 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,240 | #266 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,078 | #305 | — | — |
| 2016 | 999 | #330 | — | — |
| 2015 | 770 | #416 | — | — |
| 2014 | 517 | #584 | — | — |
| 2013 | 281 | #910 | — | — |
| 2012 | 182 | #1,301 | — | — |
| 2011 | 207 | #1,174 | — | — |
| 2010 | 165 | #1,396 | — | — |
| 2009 | 125 | #1,745 | — | — |
| 2008 | 127 | #1,748 | — | — |
| 2007 | 110 | #1,887 | — | — |
| 2006 | 97 | #2,039 | — | — |
| 2005 | 67 | #2,562 | — | — |
| 2004 | 61 | #2,688 | — | — |
| 2003 | 57 | #2,745 | — | — |
| 2002 | 45 | #3,170 | — | — |
| 2001 | 49 | #2,933 | — | — |
| 2000 | 34 | #3,759 | — | — |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,493 | — | — |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,012 | — | — |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,975 | — | — |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,929 | — | — |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,393 | — | — |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,096 | — | — |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,178 | — | — |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,916 | — | — |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,049 | — | — |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,717 | — | — |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,693 | — | — |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,352 | — | — |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,767 | — | — |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,151 | — | — |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,985 | — | — |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,318 | — | — |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,017 | — | — |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,397 | — | — |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,388 | — | — |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,689 | — | — |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,013 | — | — |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,617 | — | — |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,331 | — | — |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,315 | — | — |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,915 | — | — |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,297 | — | — |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,439 | — | — |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,831 | — | — |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,530 | — | — |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,523 | — | — |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,585 | — | — |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,652 | — | — |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,442 | — | — |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,031 | — | — |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,156 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,944 | — | — |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,758 | — | — |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,604 | — | — |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,018 | — | — |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,574 | — | — |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,829 | — | — |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,731 | — | — |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,343 | — | — |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,454 | — | — |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,510 | — | — |
| 1948 | 8 | #3,989 | — | — |
| 1947 | 19 | #2,305 | — | — |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,490 | — | — |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,376 | — | — |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,008 | — | — |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,600 | — | — |
| 1942 | 30 | #1,508 | — | — |
| 1941 | 31 | #1,396 | — | — |
| 1940 | 27 | #1,489 | — | — |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,237 | — | — |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,579 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).