Jadwiga
given name · Polish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jadwiga 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 Polish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Polish form of Hedwig, Germanic 'battle' + 'fight'.
- 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●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hedvika in CZ Czechia, DE Germany, AU Australia and 4 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●
Polish form of Hedwig, Germanic 'battle' + 'fight'.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 15 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●
- Polish1.3M98%
- English14K1%
- French2.6K1%
- German2.5K1%
- Spanish1.6K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Polish | 1,310,621 | 98% |
| English | 13,595 | 1% |
| French | 2,614 | 1% |
| German | 2,513 | 1% |
| Spanish | 1,562 | 1% |
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●
Jadwiga is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Polish: "the contentious one"; "fighter"
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In Polish, a female given name, equivalent to English Hedwig
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Jadwiga är en polsk form av → Hedvig. En känd namnbärare är drottning Jadwiga av Polen (1373/74–99) under vars styre Polen och Litauen blev ett rike. Hon helgonförklarades 1997.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, gegen Ende des 19. Jh.s entlehnter weibl. Vom., polnische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Seguridad en tiempo de guerra
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 490 |
| 2000 | 492 |
| 2001 | 495 |
| 2002 | 494 |
| 2003 | 488 |
| 2004 | 487 |
| 2005 | 489 |
| 2006 | 492 |
| 2007 | 498 |
| 2008 | 496 |
| 2009 | 497 |
| 2010 | 496 |
| 2011 | 498 |
| 2012 | 492 |
| 2013 | 488 |
| 2014 | 482 |
| 2015 | 475 |
| 2016 | 468 |
| 2017 | 458 |
| 2018 | 443 |
| 2019 | 428 |
| 2020 | 420 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Jadwiga I of Polandb. 1374HUQueen of Poland (1384–1399)
- Hedwig of Cieszynb. 1469SKnot in their usual namePolish princess, mother of King John I of Hungary
- Countess Palatine Hedwig Elisabeth of Neuburgb. 1673DEnot in their usual nameCountess Palatine of Neuburg by birth and by marriage Princess of Poland (1673-1722)
- Jadwiga Smosarskab. 1898PLPolish actress (1898–1971)
- Jadwiga Wajsb. 1912PLPolish discus thrower (1912–1990)
- Jadwiga Jędrzejowskab. 1912PLPolish tennis player (1912–1980)
- Jadwiga Piłsudskab. 1920PLPolish pilot (1920-2014)
- Jadwiga Barańskab. 1935PLPolish actor and screenwriter (1935–2024)
- Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślakb. 1951PLPolish actress (1951–2025)
- Magdalena Boczarskab. 1978PLnot in their usual namePolish actress
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 40 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 261K | #13 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 218K | #31 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.7K | #6,123 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 888 | #1,842 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 498 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 498 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 497 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 496 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 496 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 495 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 494 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 492 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 · 78 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Jadwiga?
- We estimate roughly 277 thousand people bear Jadwiga (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Jadwiga have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 261 thousand people bear Jadwiga in Poland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled jadwiga.
- Where is Jadwiga most common?
- Jadwiga is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 147 people carrying it.
- How common is Jadwiga compared with other names?
- In Poland, Jadwiga is the 49th most common given name of 66,904 given names recorded there.
- Is Jadwiga a male or female name?
- Jadwiga 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 Jadwiga mean?
- Recorded meaning: Polish form of Hedwig, Germanic 'battle' + 'fight'.
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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, “Jadwiga” — the 49th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.