Hedwiga
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hedwiga is a given name, most frequently recorded in the Czechia. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., Latinisierung von.
- 397 ●
- Sources
- 3 ●
in 5 countries
5 records
Official registry-verified
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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●
weibl. Vom., Latinisierung von
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English17837%
- Swahili6113%
- Polish429%
- Dutch367%
- Western Frisian327%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 178 | 37% |
| Swahili | 61 | 13% |
| Polish | 42 | 9% |
| Dutch | 36 | 7% |
| Western Frisian | 32 | 7% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Hedwiga Reicherb. 1884DEGerman actress (1884–1971)
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 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 32 | #11,068 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 12 | #25,977 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 6 | #7,797 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 2 | #9,934 |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 · 5 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Hedwiga?
- Our records include 397 bearers of Hedwiga across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Hedwiga have the most bearers?
- Hedwiga is most frequently recorded in the Czechia.
- Is Hedwiga a male or female name?
- Hedwiga 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 Hedwiga mean?
- Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., Latinisierung von
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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, “Hedwiga”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.