Hedi

given name · French · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Hedi is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. It appears chiefly in French and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ) Hedy: weibl. Vom., Koseform von.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance1 in 19K◐
  • NLNetherlands1 in 38K
  • IDIndonesia1 in 80K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈7.5K ●

across 9 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
247 ●

53K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 19K ◐

France

Spellings & scripts●

HediLatin · French●34K records
헤디Hangul · Korean●1 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Hedy in US United States, NL Netherlands, GB United Kingdom and 21 more and Hédi in TN Tunisia.

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●

) Hedy: weibl. Vom., Koseform von

Sources 1

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Hedi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France—3,64517K rec.1 in 19K3.6KHedi247
US United States—2,18827K rec.1 in 152K2.2KHedy235
GB United Kingdom—1,2631.2K rec.—listedHedy47
DE Germany—1,1391.1K rec.—1Hedy62
ID Indonesia—1,139184 rec.—listedHedy68
TN Tunisia#313994608 rec.—1.7KHédi27
BR Brazil—9290 rec.1 in 228K1.1KHedy1
CA Canada—751775 rec.—1Hedy49
AU Australia—730713 rec.—1Hedy55
PH Philippines—483476 rec.——Hedy23
NL Netherlands—453556 rec.1 in 38K453Hedy35
IT Italy—243261 rec.—5Hedy9

Roughly 3.6K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 19K). 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●

  • French34K39%
  • Portuguese15K17%
  • English7.7K9%
  • Arabic6.6K8%
  • German5.8K7%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French33,73839%
Portuguese14,64917%
English7,6889%
Arabic6,6008%
German5,7837%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Hedi is also recorded as 9 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name17K records spelled Hedi11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, United States, Mexico

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Hédi, Hédï, Hèdi, Hëdï, Hêdí

  • English given name16K records spelled Hedi16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Tunisia, Brazil

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Hédi, Hèdi, Hędî, Hędí, Hêdi

  • Arabic given name9.5K records spelled Hedi34 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Tunisia, United States, Italy, Syria

    Also written Hédi, Hèdi, Hédî, Hëdî, Hêdî

  • Turkish given name6.7K records spelled Hedi4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, Tunisia, Iraq

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Hédi, Hëdï

  • Indonesian given name4.9K records spelled Hedi6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Tunisia, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Hédi, Hêdí, Hèdi

  • Hungarian given name1.5K records spelled Hedi4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, Tunisia, United States, Romania

    Also written Hédi, Hèdi, Hedï

  • Estonian given name979 records spelled Hedi4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Estonia, Finland, Tunisia, United States

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Hédi

  • a separate given name755 records spelled Hedi4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Tunisia, India, United Kingdom

    Also written Hédi, Hèdi, Hêdî

  • Hindi given name349 records spelled Hedi5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Tunisia, United States, Netherlands

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Hédi, Hedí

44 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Hedi is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In bpz, pain, sickness; painful

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Latin, inflection of hedus:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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●

02550751002000200520102015202093 · 2019

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Hedi in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199947
200048
200151
200258
200360
200461
200565
200664
200767
200869
200971
201073
201173
201278
201379
201481
201583
201685
201789
201890
201993
202093

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19001920194019601980Hédi Nouira, b. 1911Hédi Fried, b. 1924Hédi Temessy, b. 1925Hédi Baccouche, b. 1930El Hedi ben Salem, b. 1935Hédi Annabi, b. 1943Hédi Kaddour, b. 1945Hedi Kriegeskotte, b. 1949Hedi Slimane, b. 1968

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 59 sources across 34 countries.

Official registers attesting Hedi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20243.6K#558
TN TunisiaINS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022)19601.7K#5
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—1.1K#8,435
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022929—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—882#8,706
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020552#17,250
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—244#437
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—198#5,252
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—144#4,422
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—106#7,420
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202093—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202091#17,250

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 · 222 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hedi?
We estimate roughly 7.5 thousand people bear Hedi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Hedi have the most bearers?
We estimate about 3.6 thousand people bear Hedi in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled hedi.
How common is Hedi compared with other names?
In Tunisia, Hedi is the 313th most common given name of 13,955 given names recorded there.
Is Hedi a male or female name?
Hedi is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What does the name Hedi mean?
Recorded meaning: ) Hedy: weibl. Vom., Koseform von
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Hedi” — the 313th most common given name in Tunisia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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