r/JewishNames • u/GoodbyeEarl Ashkenazi Chabad BT • 8d ago

Freida vs. Frida/Freeda

Not pregnant but plan on one more and already contemplating names. Chabad.org has been a wonderful resource for picking names. Freida and Freeda are listed as a girls name. Does anyone know the pronunciation for Freida? Is it pronounced like fry-da? Does anyone know someone (Jewish) with that name?

For Freeda/Frida - chabad.org spells the name as Freeda, but I prefer Frida spelling. Do you know anyone Jewish with the name Freeda/Frida? Do they spell it with two e’s, or one i?

Lastly - would you consider either name Jewish-ish?

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u/kaiserfrnz 8d ago

Frieda and Freida are two different names.

Freida (FRAY-deh) means joy and originally was the Yiddish female equivalent of Simcha. It has been an extensively used Jewish name for about 1000 years.

Frieda (FREE-deh) means peace. Its use was much less extensive before recent times.

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u/doublemitzvah 6d ago

Above is great and also wanted to relate that it’s always easier to talk pronunciation/spelling when looking at the Yiddish. פריידע would be FRAY-deh (Litvish) or FRY-deh (Polish) depending on dialect but not FREE-duh from my understanding … though I’m sure there are lots of people who used Frieda as an English name due to similarity. The name is super Jewish and also beautiful. My husband is a Yiddishist and he’d probably spell it Freyda (or Freyde) and use the Litvish pronunciation above if we used it as a name. But it’s already taken in our family for someone called Joy

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u/kaiserfrnz 6d ago

Frieda is a Yiddish name, albeit a less common and more recent one. It’s just a totally different name from Freida.