Given name · also Old Norse
Frøy
“lord”
Frøy is a masculine given name from Old Norse, ultimately from Proto-Germanic. It is used in Norwegian Nynorsk.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Frøy goes back to Proto-Germanic *frawjô, meaning “lord.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Frøy comes from Old Norse, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old Norse Freyr, from Proto-Germanic *frawjô (“lord”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Frøy’s family of names
In Norwegian Nynorsk usage, Frøy shares a linguistic root with the Icelandic form FREYR.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Frøy
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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