Hedviga
given name · Croatian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hedviga is a given name, with more bearers in the Czechia than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Croatian and Czech, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Derived from German Hedwig.
- HRCroatia1 in 20K◐
- LVLatvia1 in 43K
- CZCzechia1 in 43K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈539 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 17 ●
- 1 in 20K ◐
across 5 countries
recorded for this name
1.1K records
Official registry-verified
Croatia
Spellings & scripts●
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●
- GermanHedwig●
- Old High GermanHaduwig◐via Hedwig
- Proto-Germanic*Haþuwīgą◐via Hedwig
- Proto-Germanic root*haþuz“fight”◐via Hedwig
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
Derived from German Hedwig.
Sources 2
Attested across 19 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | — | 250 | — | 1 in 43K | 250 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | #956 | 207 | 1.1K rec. | 1 in 20K | 207 | Hedviga | 17 |
| LV Latvia | — | 44 | 0 rec. | 1 in 43K | 44 | — | 1 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 33 | 0 rec. | 1 in 64K | 33 | Hedviga | 2 |
| RS Serbia | — | 14 | 2 rec. | — | — | Hedviga | 3 |
| US United States | — | 11 | 11 rec. | — | — | Hedviga | 3 |
| PL Poland | — | 5 | — | 1 in 7.7M | 5 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | — | — | — | — | listed | — | — |
Roughly 250 people in Czechia bear this name (about 1 in 43K). 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●
- Croatian1.7K44%
- Czech1.2K31%
- Slovak51013%
- English1253%
- Hungarian1183%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Croatian | 1,702 | 44% |
| Czech | 1,224 | 31% |
| Slovak | 510 | 13% |
| English | 125 | 3% |
| Hungarian | 118 | 3% |
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●
Hedviga is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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 |
|---|---|
| 2008 | 82 |
| 2009 | 75 |
| 2010 | 71 |
| 2011 | 68 |
| 2012 | 65 |
| 2013 | 65 |
| 2014 | 62 |
| 2015 | 60 |
| 2016 | 56 |
| 2017 | 53 |
| 2018 | 52 |
| 2019 | 48 |
| 2020 | 46 |
| 2021 | 44 |
| 2022 | 38 |
| 2023 | 36 |
| 2024 | 36 |
| 2025 | 33 |
SI SURS — resident population given names — 18 years between 2008–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Marija Gubeneb. 1872LVnot in their usual nameLatvian composer (1872 - 1947)
- Malina Hedvigb. 1983SKnot in their usual nameHungarian hate crime victim
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 14 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 250 | #853 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 207 | #1,139 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 125 | #945 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 125 | #885 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 118 | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2008 | 82 | #665 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2009 | 75 | #699 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2010 | 71 | #729 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2011 | 68 | #752 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2013 | 65 | #792 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2012 | 65 | #783 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2014 | 62 | #827 |
Reference works 2
- 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 · 29 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Hedviga?
- We estimate roughly 539 people bear Hedviga (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Hedviga have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 250 people bear Hedviga in the Czechia, more than in any other country in our records.
- Where is Hedviga most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hedviga is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 20 thousand people — even though Czechia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Hedviga compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Hedviga is the 956th most common given name of 13,510 given names recorded there.
- Is Hedviga a male or female name?
- Hedviga 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 Hedviga mean?
- Recorded meaning: 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.
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, “Hedviga” — the 956th most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.