Freya
Still rare enough that most Poles have never met one, but climbing fast: more newborn girls got it last year than in any year before. Germanic at root, it means "lady" or "noble lady", and it goes only to girls.
Freya Pronunciation
Freya is pronounced fre-IH-ah (/frɛˈɨa/).
What Freya means
Where Freya comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Freya descends from Old Norse Freyja, the name the Scandinavians gave their goddess of love. Before it belonged to any goddess, freyja was a plain word for "lady" or "noble lady". The same Germanic root left its mark on German, where Frau still means woman and lady. Freyja even had a masculine twin, Freyr, whose name meant "lord".
The goddess rode a chariot pulled by cats and wore the necklace Brísingamen, and her name held its older sense of rank the whole time. So the meaning stayed close to the word. Freya means lady.
For a long time the name stayed mostly Scandinavian. In recent decades it has climbed the charts in Britain, and it now turns up on Polish school registers, read out at the start of the year. On such a list it sits without a diminutive, since Freya has no established Polish variants. What the name says is what the old word said: noble lady.
How many people are named Freya
1 in 165763 women in Poland is named Freya. 136 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2831 among female names.
Freya's popularity over time
18 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #533 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2018.
Where parents choose Freya
Freya is most popular in Masovian, 133% above the national average (13 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Warmian-Masurian (+77%) and Pomeranian (+73%). It is least common in Silesian and Lesser Poland, 44% and 16% below average respectively.
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Masovian
+133%1 in 27,251 babies
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Warmian-Masurian
+77%1 in 35,897 babies
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Pomeranian
+73%1 in 36,830 babies
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Silesian
−44%1 in 113,792 babies
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Lesser Poland
−16%1 in 75,639 babies
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Masovian+133% 13 born1 in 27,251 babies+133%
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Warmian-Masurian+77% 2 born1 in 35,897 babies+77%
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Pomeranian+73% 4 born1 in 36,830 babies+73%
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Greater Poland+18% 4 born1 in 53,811 babies+18%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian+16% 2 born1 in 54,690 babies+16%
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Subcarpathian+5% 2 born1 in 60,283 babies+5%
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Łódź±0% 2 born1 in 63,359 babies±0%
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Lesser Poland−16% 3 born1 in 75,639 babies−16%
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Silesian−44% 2 born1 in 113,792 babies−44%
Freya as a middle name
Freya is a first name for 136 women in Poland and a middle name for another 56, a 71/29 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 914th, between Constance (56) and Guadalupe (56).
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#912 Clare56
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#913 Constance56
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#914 Freya56
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#915 Guadalupe56
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#916 Ivanova56