Freya
How many real pets are named Freya, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Freya as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 327 pets are named Freya: 251 dogs, 76 cats. Where sex was recorded, 99% are female and 1% male. It ranks #316 among dog names and #113 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Freya
Dogs
- German Shepherd: 16
- Labrador Retriever: 15
- Pit Bull: 13
- Australian Shepherd: 12
- Siberian Husky: 9
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Freya
- New York City: 118licensed
- Seattle: 66licensed
- Toronto: 55licensed
- Austin shelter: 47shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 16licensed
- Zurich: 13licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 8shelter
- Richmond, VA: 4licensed
Freya as a human name
This is the meaning of Freya as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name from Old Norse of mostly British usage. Root meaning: “mistress, lady”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Freya
Dog names about as popular as Freya
Freya FAQ
How many pets are named Freya?
In the public pet records we track, 327 pets are named Freya: 251 dogs, 76 cats. Where sex was recorded, 99% are female and 1% male. It ranks #316 among dog names and #113 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Freya?
Among dogs named Freya in these records, the most common breed is German Shepherd.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); Dogs of Cambridge (ODC PDDL); Licensed Dog and Cat Names, City of Toronto (Open Government Licence – Toronto); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); Pet Licenses, City of Richmond; Animal Shelter Intake and Outcome, County of Sonoma; Austin Animal Center Outcomes (public domain). License records count registered pets; shelter records count animals that passed through a shelter (some names are given by staff). Pets that appear in several years of one dataset are counted once. Names are counted as written, so spelling variants are separate.