Freya
1.93k
Babies in 2024
-11%
10-year change
2011
Peak · 2.62k
-7%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Freya
Freya is one of the more popular UK girls' names in the latest ONS data, ranked #7 for girls born in 2024 with 1,929 babies registered in England & Wales.
Freya reached its peak in 2011, when 2,619 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #19 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 1,929 represents 74% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 50,564 girls have been officially registered with the name Freya in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 22,885 girls were registered with the name, starting from 2,164 in 2014 and ending at 1,929 in 2024.