Hedvig
given name · Norwegian Bokmål · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hedvig is a given name, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Norwegian Bokmål and Finnish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a female given name, derived from German Hedwig.
- SESweden1 in 1.4K◐
- NONorway1 in 2.4K
- NLNetherlands1 in 5.7K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈15K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 28 ●
- 1 in 1.4K ◐
across 12 countries
recorded for this name
343 records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Hedwig in US United States, BE Belgium, TR Türkiye and 1 more, Гедвига in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and Гедвіга in UA Ukraine.
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●
a female given name, derived from German Hedwig
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | 7,096△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 1.4K | 7.1K | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 3,040△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 5.7K | 3K | — | 3 |
| NO Norway | 2,294△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 2.4K | 8.1K | — | 2 |
| US United States | 1,090△ | 39 rec. | 1 in 305K | 1.1K | Hedwig | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 480 | — | 1 in 12K | 480 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 382 | 0 rec. | 1 in 15K | 2K | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 215 | — | 1 in 178K | 215 | — | — |
| RU Russia | 163 | 32 rec. | — | — | Гедвига | 28 |
| BR Brazil | 101 | — | 1 in 2.1M | 187 | — | — |
| UA Ukraine | 101 | 101 rec. | — | — | Гедвіга | 5 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | 49 | 16 rec. | — | — | Гедвига | 7 |
| ES Spain | 30△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 1.7M | 31 | — | 1 |
Roughly 7.1K people in Sweden bear this name (about 1 in 1.4K). 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●
- Norwegian Bokmål8.1K33%
- Finnish6.5K27%
- Swedish2.5K10%
- Danish2.1K9%
- Hungarian1.2K5%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Norwegian Bokmål | 8,090 | 33% |
| Finnish | 6,530 | 27% |
| Swedish | 2,460 | 10% |
| Danish | 2,106 | 9% |
| Hungarian | 1,181 | 5% |
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●
Hedvig 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 Swedish, Hedvig är ett tyskt helgonnamn, fornhögtyskt Haduwig, sammansatt av ord motsvarande fornvästnordiskans hǫð ’strid’ och -vig/-wig ’kamp, strid’. I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 15 oktober, efter Sankta Hedvig, en slavisk prinsessa (död 1243).
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Scandinavian form of HEDWIG , popular in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. It is borne by the young girl who is the central character in Henrik Ibsen's play The Wild Duck (1886).
as a word
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 |
|---|---|
| 1945 | 12 |
| 1946 | 16 |
| 1947 | 8 |
| 1948 | 7 |
| 1949 | 6 |
| 1950 | 4 |
| 1951 | 5 |
| 1952 | 8 |
| 1953 | 7 |
| 1954 | 7 |
| 1955 | 5 |
| 1956 | 5 |
| 1957 | 4 |
| 1960 | 4 |
| 1961 | 4 |
| 1962 | 4 |
| 1963 | 7 |
| 1964 | 6 |
| 1967 | 4 |
| 1968 | 7 |
| 1969 | 4 |
| 1970 | 10 |
| 1971 | 7 |
| 1972 | 7 |
| 1973 | 8 |
| 1974 | 7 |
| 1975 | 6 |
| 1976 | 6 |
| 1977 | 7 |
| 1978 | 7 |
| 1979 | 4 |
| 1980 | 4 |
| 1981 | 7 |
| 1982 | 8 |
| 1983 | 4 |
| 1984 | 8 |
| 1985 | 6 |
| 1987 | 7 |
| 1988 | 11 |
| 1989 | 12 |
| 1990 | 5 |
| 1991 | 5 |
| 1992 | 8 |
| 1993 | 6 |
| 1994 | 11 |
| 1995 | 11 |
| 1996 | 15 |
| 1997 | 11 |
| 1998 | 20 |
| 1999 | 23 |
| 2000 | 19 |
| 2001 | 30 |
| 2002 | 22 |
| 2003 | 32 |
| 2004 | 29 |
| 2005 | 31 |
| 2006 | 29 |
| 2007 | 32 |
| 2008 | 44 |
| 2009 | 30 |
| 2010 | 38 |
| 2011 | 30 |
| 2012 | 53 |
| 2013 | 43 |
| 2014 | 47 |
| 2015 | 36 |
| 2016 | 44 |
| 2017 | 62 |
| 2018 | 58 |
| 2019 | 89 |
| 2020 | 139 |
| 2021 | 149 |
| 2022 | 205 |
| 2023 | 180 |
| 2024 | 189 |
| 2025 | 219 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 76 years between 1945–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Jadwiga I of Polandb. 1374HUnot in their usual nameQueen of Poland (1384–1399)
- Hedvig Sophia of Swedenb. 1681SESwedish princess (1681-1708)
- Hedvig Ulrika Taubeb. 1714SESwedish noble (1714-1744)
- Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflychtb. 1718SESwedish poet
- Hedvig Catharina De la Gardieb. 1732SESwedish noble (1732-1800)
- Hedvig Eleonora von Fersenb. 1753SESwedish noblewoman and lady-in-waiting (1753-1792)
- Hedvig Gebhardb. 1867FIFinnish journalist and politician (1867-1961)
- Hedvig Lindahlb. 1983SESwedish association football goalkeeper
- Hedvig Karakasb. 1990HUHungarian judoka
- Hedvig Rasmussenb. 1993DKDanish rower
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 34 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 8.1K | #477 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 7.1K | #500 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 3.2K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 3.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 3K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 2.9K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 2.8K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 2.7K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 2.3K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2024 | 2.1K | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 2K | #1,076 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2023 | 1.9K | — |
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 · 232 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Hedvig?
- We estimate roughly 15 thousand people bear Hedvig (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Hedvig have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 7.1 thousand people bear Hedvig in Sweden, more than in any other country in our records.
- Where is Hedvig most common?
- Hedvig is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.4 thousand people carrying it.
- Is Hedvig a male or female name?
- Hedvig 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 Hedvig mean?
- Recorded meaning: a female given name, derived from German Hedwig
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hedvig”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.