Given name
Freyr
Freyr is a masculine given name from Old Norse. It is used in Icelandic.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2018. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Freyr through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 49
- 49 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #10,022 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,022 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Freyr’s family of names
In Icelandic usage, Freyr shares a linguistic root with the Norwegian Nynorsk form Frøy.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Freyr
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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