Frigg: Name Meaning, Origin & Popularity

At a Glance: Name: Frigg – Meaning: beloved – Origin: Old Norse / Proto-Germanic – Gender: Girl – Pronunciation: FRIG


Frigg is an Old Norse / Proto-Germanic girl's name meaning “beloved”. It appears in 5 of our baby name lists.

Meaning & Origin of Frigg

Meaning: Beloved.

Origin: Old Norse / Proto-Germanic.

A common claim: Frigg is sometimes confused with the goddess Freyja Actually: They're distinct goddesses — Frigg is Odin's wife and goddess of marriage/hearth, while Freyja is a separate deity linked to love, fertility, and war. Some pop-culture adaptations blur the two.

Source: Wiktionary.

How to Pronounce Frigg

Phonetic: FRIG   IPA: /frɪɡ/

Popularity of Frigg

Frigg doesn’t appear in U.S. Social Security birth records, which include every name given to at least five babies in a year — so it’s rare in the U.S.

Lists That Include Frigg

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