Freydis (Old Norse Freydís) combines Frey (the god) + dís (lady, goddess). Freydís Eiríksdóttir (c. 970-?) — daughter of Erik the Red and sister of Leif Erikson — the Norse explorer who led her own expedition to Vinland (North America) around 1010 CE, about 480 years before Columbus. *According to the Saga of the Greenlanders, when their Vinland camp was attacked by Indigenous warriors and the Norse men fled, the pregnant Freydis seized a fallen sword, slapped it against her bare breast, and screamed so fiercely that the attackers fled in terror. One of the most vividly drawn women in any Norse saga.*
Featured in the Saga of Erik the Red and the Saga of the Greenlanders.
Freydis is a compound name. Its parts are dís — each an attested element with a recorded meaning of its own.
Freydis does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Freydis reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.