Hedy

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Hedy is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Portuguese, written in the Latin script.

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

Locally spelled Hedi in FR France, BE Belgium, EE Estonia 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Hedy 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●

  • English29K46%
  • Portuguese7.5K12%
  • Spanish7.4K12%
  • French4.8K8%
  • German3.3K5%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English28,94846%
Portuguese7,54412%
Spanish7,41112%
French4,7618%
German3,2905%

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◐

Hedy is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name16K records spelled Hedy3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Peru, Argentina

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Hédy

  • a separate given name1.1K records spelled Hedy2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Switzerland

    Also written Hédy

  • Hindi given name205 records spelled Hedy3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, China

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Hédy

43 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.

Over time●

050100150192019401960198020002020109 · 1942

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Hedy in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1915–2025
Yearrecords
19157
19165
19179
19188
19199
192012
192116
192224
192320
192421
192515
192615
192717
192817
192923
193020
193114
193213
193322
193423
193512
193618
19379
193822
193958
194071
1941102
1942109
194386
194450
194555
194686
194797
194875
194965
195057
195153
195263
195358
195453
195546
195629
195731
195830
195934
196035
196129
196227
196327
196431
196518
196624
196717
196810
196921
197012
197115
197214
19739
197410
19759
19767
19776
19788
19799
19807
19818
19836
19848
19856
19869
19877
19898
19916
19936
19945
19966
19975
19989
20006
20019
200210
20039
20047
20059
20079
20086
20105
20115
20127
201410
20159
201617
201712
201811
201914
20207
20218
202210
20238
20248
20257

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 102 years between 1915–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19001920194019601980Hedy Bienenfeld, b. 1907Hedy Lamarr, b. 1914Hedy Stenuf, b. 1922Hedy Schlunegger, b. 1923Hedy Epstein, b. 1924Hedy d'Ancona, b. 1937Hedy Fry, b. 1941Hedy Scott, b. 1946Hedy Krissane, b. 1971Hedy Burress, b. 1973

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 43 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Hedy
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.2K#6,989
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024590#1,898
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—495#14,396
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—453#2,143
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—451#7,946
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022407—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1990374—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—345#3,986
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1980342—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—340#15,404
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1970319—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1960277—

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 · 349 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hedy?
We estimate roughly 7.5 thousand people bear Hedy (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Hedy have the most bearers?
We estimate about 3.6 thousand people bear Hedy in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled hedi.
How common is Hedy compared with other names?
In Tunisia, Hedy is the 313th most common given name of 13,955 given names recorded there.
Is Hedy a male or female name?
Hedy 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.
Query this name via API
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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, “Hedy” — the 313th most common given name in Tunisia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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