Freya

Freya is an Old Norse feminine given name derived from the name of the Old Norse goddess Freyja.
Freya was the 25th most popular name for baby girls born in England and Wales and was the 32nd most popular name for baby girls born in Scotland in 2007. Freya was the 220th most popular name for girls born in Germany in 2007. Variant Freja was the most popular name for baby girls born in Denmark in 2009 and was the 52nd most popular name in Sweden in 2009 for baby girls.
Notable people with the name include:
Freya Aswynn, Dutch neopagan
Freya Bardell, American designer
Freya Van den Bossche, Belgian politician
Freya Clausen, Danish singer known also by the mononym Freya
Freya Lim, Taiwanese singer
Freya Hoffmeister, German sea kayaker
Freya Mathews, Australian philosopher and author
Freya von Moltke, German anti-Nazi resistance group member
Freya North, English novelist
Freya Piryns, Belgian politician
Freya Stark, English travel writer
Freya Mavor, Scottish actress
Freja Beha Erichsen, Danish model

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Goddess of sexual love and beauty in Norse mythology, from Old Norse Freyja, which is related to Old English frea "lord;" Old Saxon frua, Middle Dutch vrouwe "woman, wife," German Frau; see frau).Frigga is usually considered the goddess of married love; Freya, the goddess of love, the northern Venus. Actually, Frigga is of the Aesir family of Scandinavian myth; Freya, of the Vanir family; the two lines of belief merged, and the two goddesses are sometimes fused, and sometimes confused. [Joseph T. Shipley, "The Origins of English Words," 1984]

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From Freyja, means: lady, woman, goddess of love, fertility, and beauty.

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Freya Mavor	1993	Actress
2	Freya Tingley	1994	Australian actress
3	Freya Stark	1893	British explorer and writer
4	Freya Klier	1950	German author and film director
5	Freya Stafford	1977	Australian actress
6	Freya North	1967	British writer
7	Freya von Moltke	1911	German writer and scholar
8	Freya Hoffmeister	1964	Sea kayaker
9	Freya Lim	1979	Taiwanese singer
10	Freya Trampert	1968	German actress and voice actress
11	Freya Adams		American actress
12	Freya von Korff	1986	Writer
13	Freya Van den Bossche	1975	Flemish Minister for Energy, Housing, Cities and Social Economy
14	Freya Christie	1997
15	Freya Mathews		Australian philosopher
16	Freya Wilson
17	Freya Wippich	1952	Austrian voice actor
18	Freya Ross	1983	Scottish distance runner
19	Freya Blackwood	1975	Australian illustrator
20	Freya Ostapovitch	1956	Australian politician
21	Jo Freya	1960	British musician
22	Freya Pausewang	1932	German author
23	Freya Clausen	1978	Danish singer and television personality
24	Freya Aelbrecht	1990	Belgian volleyball player
25	Freya Aswynn	1949	Dutch musician
26	Freya		Character of Final Fantasy
27	Freya Stephan-Kühn	1943	German writer (1943-2001)
28	Freya Wilcox
29	Freya Ravensbergen
30	Freya Piryns	1976	Belgian politician
31	Freya Jaffke	1937	German non-fiction writer
32	Freya Hattenberger	1978	German artist
33	Freya Manfred
34	Freya Monjé-Sturmfels	1896	German stage actor (1896-1981)
35	Freya Saeys	1984	Belgian politician
36	Freya Møller-Sørensen		Danish actress
37	Freya Gerstad		Norwegian screenwriter