Hedvika
given name · Czech · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hedvika is a given name, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 49th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Czech and Hungarian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Hedwig.
- PLPoland1 in 147◐
- CZCzechia1 in 943
- USUnited States1 in 125K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈277K ●
- Sources
- 184 ●
- 1 in 147 ◐
across 12 countries
26K records
Official registry-verified
Poland
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Jadwiga in PL Poland, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 13 more.
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, equivalent to English Hedwig
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #49 | 260,639△ | 10K rec. | 1 in 147 | 261K | Jadwiga | 149 |
| CZ Czechia | #197 | 11,350△ | 619 rec. | 1 in 943 | 11K | Hedvika | 67 |
| US United States | — | 2,655 | 12K rec. | 1 in 125K | 2.7K | Jadwiga | 184 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,113 | 821 rec. | — | — | Jadwiga | 66 |
| SE Sweden | — | 888△ | 100 rec. | 1 in 11K | 888 | Jadwiga | 15 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 643△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 3.3K | 643 | — | 3 |
| IT Italy | — | 280 | 279 rec. | — | — | Jadwiga | 18 |
| CA Canada | — | 224 | 204 rec. | — | — | Jadwiga | 38 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 137 | 105 rec. | 1 in 126K | 137 | Jadwiga | 19 |
| IS Iceland | — | 99 | — | 1 in 3.5K | 99 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 90 | — | 1 in 65K | 90 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 79 | 69 rec. | — | 308 | Jadwiga | 8 |
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●
- Czech54K96%
- Hungarian1.6K3%
- English2221%
- Croatian1161%
- Spanish541%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Czech | 53,832 | 96% |
| Hungarian | 1,645 | 3% |
| English | 222 | 1% |
| Croatian | 116 | 1% |
| Spanish | 54 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2008 | 1,019 |
| 2009 | 1,004 |
| 2010 | 981 |
| 2011 | 960 |
| 2012 | 937 |
| 2013 | 915 |
| 2014 | 893 |
| 2015 | 873 |
| 2016 | 847 |
| 2017 | 820 |
| 2018 | 791 |
| 2019 | 776 |
| 2020 | 752 |
| 2021 | 731 |
| 2022 | 715 |
| 2023 | 689 |
| 2024 | 664 |
| 2025 | 643 |
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●
- Hedvika Spanheimskab. 1100mother of Engelbert, Duke of Carinthia
- Hedwig of Bohemiab. 1154not in their usual namePeerage person ID=9011
- Hedvika Schulhofováb. 1868CZwomen’s rights activist
- Anna Sychravováb. 1873CZnot in their usual nameCzechoslovak politician
- Hedvika Barkusováb. 1890CZHolocaust victim (born 1890)
- Hedvika Zárubováb. 1926SKSlovakian Righteous Among the Nations
- Heda Čechováb. 1928CZnot in their usual nameCzech member of Czech National Council and presenter (1928–2020)
- Hedvika Vilgusováb. 1946CZCzech illustrator, local politician and artist (1946-2007)
- Hedvika Pavlica Kolmanb. 1956SIresearcher
- Hedvika Dermol-HvalaSIresearcher
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 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 11K | #183 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 5.7K | #205 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 5.7K | #205 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2008 | 1K | #180 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2009 | 1K | #183 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2010 | 981 | #183 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2011 | 960 | #190 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2012 | 937 | #197 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2013 | 915 | #204 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2014 | 893 | #207 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2015 | 873 | #208 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2016 | 847 | #214 |
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 · 36 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Hedvika?
- We estimate roughly 277 thousand people bear Hedvika (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Hedvika have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 261 thousand people bear Hedvika in Poland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled jadwiga.
- Where is Hedvika most common?
- Hedvika is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 147 people carrying it.
- How common is Hedvika compared with other names?
- In Poland, Hedvika is the 49th most common given name of 66,904 given names recorded there.
- Is Hedvika a male or female name?
- Hedvika 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 Hedvika mean?
- Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Hedwig
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hedvikaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
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, “Hedvika” — the 49th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.