Edwige
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Edwige is a given name, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. In Cameroon it is the 72nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and French (Côte d’Ivoire), written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: French form of Hedwig, Germanic ‘battle’ + ‘fight’.
- CMCameroon1 in 1.6K◐
- FRFrance1 in 3.3K
- USUnited States1 in 125K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈288K ●
- Sources
- 292 ●
- 1 in 147 ◐
across 11 countries
66K records
Official registry-verified
Poland
Spellings & scripts●
2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hedwig in BR Brazil, NL Netherlands, AR Argentina and 6 more and Jadwiga in VE Venezuela.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
French form of Hedwig, Germanic ‘battle’ + ‘fight’
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | — | 260,639 | 0 rec. | 1 in 147 | 261K | — | 2 |
| FR France | #532 | 20,670 | 56K rec. | 1 in 3.3K | 21K | Edwige | 292 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 3,040△ | 53 rec. | 1 in 5.7K | 3K | Hedwig | 11 |
| US United States | — | 2,655 | 3.6K rec. | 1 in 125K | 2.7K | Edwige | 129 |
| CM Cameroon | #72 | 1,212 | 1.2K rec. | — | — | Edwige | 24 |
| SE Sweden | — | 888△ | 11 rec. | 1 in 11K | 888 | — | 4 |
| BE Belgium | — | 778 | 727 rec. | — | 1 | Edwige | 40 |
| GP Guadeloupe | #240 | 602 | 11 rec. | — | 5 | Edwige | 6 |
| AR Argentina | — | 565 | 505 rec. | — | 3 | Hedwig | 17 |
| MQ Martinique | #413 | 335 | 9 rec. | — | 5 | Edwige | 4 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | 325 | 344 rec. | — | — | Edwige | 22 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 279 | 216 rec. | — | listed | Edwige | 29 |
Roughly 261K people in Poland bear this name (about 1 in 147). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French135K90%
- French (Côte d’Ivoire)9.5K6%
- English2.6K2%
- Spanish4181%
- Portuguese3461%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 135,143 | 90% |
| French (Côte d’Ivoire) | 9,532 | 6% |
| English | 2,570 | 2% |
| Spanish | 418 | 1% |
| Portuguese | 346 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Edwige is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Germanic name; saint Hedwig of Silesia (16 Oct.).
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, a female given name, equivalent to English Hedwig
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Du germanique hild + wig « combat, guerre »; fête de sainte Édige/Edwige le 16 octobre.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Origine germanique, « richesse » et « combat ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Du germ. Hadewig/Hedwig, « combat, guerre »; fêtée le 16 octobre (sainte Édwige/Hedwige).
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1908 | 5 |
| 1910 | 5 |
| 1912 | 5 |
| 1914 | 5 |
| 1915 | 5 |
| 1916 | 5 |
| 1917 | 5 |
| 1918 | 5 |
| 1919 | 5 |
| 1920 | 10 |
| 1921 | 5 |
| 1922 | 5 |
| 1923 | 5 |
| 1924 | 5 |
| 1925 | 10 |
| 1926 | 5 |
| 1927 | 5 |
| 1928 | 5 |
| 1929 | 5 |
| 1930 | 5 |
| 1931 | 10 |
| 1932 | 5 |
| 1933 | 5 |
| 1934 | 5 |
| 1935 | 5 |
| 1936 | 10 |
| 1937 | 10 |
| 1938 | 5 |
| 1939 | 10 |
| 1940 | 10 |
| 1941 | 5 |
| 1942 | 10 |
| 1943 | 5 |
| 1944 | 10 |
| 1945 | 5 |
| 1946 | 5 |
| 1947 | 5 |
| 1948 | 5 |
| 1949 | 10 |
| 1950 | 10 |
| 1951 | 10 |
| 1952 | 5 |
| 1953 | 10 |
| 1954 | 10 |
| 1955 | 15 |
| 1956 | 5 |
| 1957 | 10 |
| 1958 | 10 |
| 1959 | 10 |
| 1960 | 5 |
| 1961 | 10 |
| 1962 | 5 |
| 1963 | 5 |
| 1964 | 5 |
| 1965 | 10 |
| 1966 | 5 |
| 1967 | 5 |
| 1968 | 5 |
| 1972 | 5 |
| 1973 | 5 |
| 1974 | 5 |
| 1976 | 5 |
GP INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe) — 62 years between 1908–1976. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Edwige Feuillèreb. 1907FRFrench actress (1907–1998)
- Edwige Antierb. 1942FRFrench politician and physician
- Edwige Aviceb. 1945FRFrench politician
- Edwige Fenechb. 1948FRFrench-Italian actress
- Edwige Pitelb. 1967FRFrench cyclist
- Edwige Lemoineb. 1973FRFrench actress
- Edwige Lawson-Wadeb. 1979FRFrench basketball player (born 1979)
- Edwige Diazb. 1987FRFrench politician
- Edwige Gwendb. 1990ITItalian judoka
- Louane Emerab. 1996FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress and singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 38 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 21K | #2,597 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 362 | #22,738 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 1974 | 340 | #938 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 82 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 73 | #22,738 |
| GA Gabon | Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative) | 2025 | 65 | #36 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 30 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #15,972 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #14,801 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 29 | #43,371 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 28 | #20,497 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 26 | #94,398 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 264 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Edwige?
- We estimate roughly 288 thousand people bear Edwige (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Edwige have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 261 thousand people bear Edwige in Poland, more than in any other country in our records.
- Where is Edwige most common?
- Edwige is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 147 people carrying it.
- How common is Edwige compared with other names?
- In Cameroon, Edwige is the 72nd most common given name of 9,502 given names recorded there.
- Is Edwige a male or female name?
- Edwige is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Edwige mean?
- Recorded meaning: French form of Hedwig, Germanic ‘battle’ + ‘fight’
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Edwige” — the 72nd most common given name in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.