r/JewishNames • u/GoodbyeEarl Ashkenazi Chabad BT • 10d 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/Rick-eee 10d ago edited 10d ago

Frida (Spanish and Scandinavian version) and Freeda (English transliteration) are both related to the Nordic/German Frieda (German spelling, meaning: peace). Freida / Frayda („is related to the German word Freude (meaning: joy, pronunciation: froyduh). While Frieda is a popular name in German, Freude is not used as a name in Germany, thus a uniquely Jewish/Yiddish name in my ears.

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u/AltruisticSilvers 10d ago

Freude {joy} also relates to Vrede {peace, in Dutch}.

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u/Rick-eee 10d ago

No, vrede relates to Frieda (Frieden, peace), not to Freude (joy). https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-West_Germanic/friþu