Jadvyga
given name · Lithuanian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jadvyga is a given name, most frequently recorded in Lithuania. It appears chiefly in Lithuanian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Hedwig.
- LTLithuania1 in 92◐
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 5.7M
- PLPoland1 in 7.4M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin●
a female given name, equivalent to English Hedwig
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
| Country | Share of this name | |
|---|---|---|
| LT Lithuania | 111,385 | 99% |
| US United States | 394 | 1% |
| GB United Kingdom | 36 | 1% |
| BR Brazil | 35 | 1% |
| PL Poland | 32 | 1% |
≈111,882 recorded bearers across the countries shown (a sample of the full distribution).
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Lithuanian112K100%
- English2111%
- Polish401%
- Portuguese391%
- Spanish241%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Lithuanian | 111,592 | 100% |
| English | 211 | 1% |
| Polish | 40 | 1% |
| Portuguese | 39 | 1% |
| Spanish | 24 | 1% |
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●
- Jadvyga Juškytėb. 1869LTLithuanian activist, teacher and folklorist
- Jadvyga Čiurlionytėb. 1898LTLithuanian musicologist
- Jadvyga Kutkuvienėb. 1898LTLithuanian opera singer
- Jadvyga Jovaišaitėb. 1903LTLithuanian ballet dancer (1903-2000)
- Jadvyga Drungaitėb. 1905LTLithuanian poet
- Jadvyga Mozūraitė-Klemkienėb. 1923LTLithuanian sculptor
- Jadvyga Gervytė-Tvarijonavičienėb. 1938LTLithuanian painter
- Jadvyga Putinienėb. 1945LTLithuanian javelin thrower
- Jadvyga Zinkevičiūtėb. 1949LTLithuanian politician
- Jadvyga Dunauskaitėb. 1954LTLithuanian politician
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 10 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LT Lithuania | Registrų centras — top-50 given names | — | 37K | #6 |
| LT Lithuania | Registrų centras — Populiariausi naujagimių vardai | — | 37K | #6 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 8 | #8,162 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 8 | #8,163 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1 | #22,827 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 1 | — |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| LT Lithuania | VLKK — Lietuvos Respublikos piliečių vardų sąvadas (recommended names) | — | — | — |
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 · 8 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Jadvyga?
- Our records include 111,882 bearers of Jadvyga across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Jadvyga have the most bearers?
- Jadvyga is most frequently recorded in Lithuania.
- Is Jadvyga a male or female name?
- Jadvyga 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 Jadvyga mean?
- Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English 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, “Jadvyga”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.