Freja
Most Poles have never met a Freja: only a few dozen carry it, all of them girls. The name is emerging though, with more born last year than in any year before. Germanic at root, it means "lady".
Freja Pronunciation
Freja is pronounced FRE-yah (/ˈfrɛja/).
What Freja means
Where Freja comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Freja begins with an ordinary word. In Old Norse, freyja meant lady, the mistress of a household. It goes back to Proto-Germanic \frawjǭ, and the same old root surfaces in modern German as Frau*. The sense is plain. Before the word was anything else, it named a woman of standing, a lady of the house.
Scandinavia gave it a second life. Freyja was the Norse goddess of love and fertility, and her title, lady, hardened over time into a personal name used across Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The spelling Freja is the everyday Danish and Swedish form. It stays close to the goddess while dropping the heavier y.
Polish parents have started reaching for it too. A girl called Freja on a Warsaw class register still answers to that first meaning, pani, dama. She has no name-day of the old kind, so her imieniny is often set on her birthday instead. The word under her name is four letters older than any calendar: lady.
How many people are named Freja
1 in 609293 women in Poland is named Freja. 37 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6459 among female names.
Freja's popularity over time
7 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #802 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2017.
Where Freja is most popular
Freja is most popular in Masovian, 307% above the national average (4 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Silesian (+217%).
Freja as a middle name
Freja is a first name for 37 women in Poland and a middle name for another 32, a 54/46 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1233rd, between Elisabetta (32) and Galina (32).
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#1231 Dalila32
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#1232 Elisabetta32
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#1233 Freja32
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#1234 Galina32
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#1235 Ifeoma32