Hédy
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hédy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 149K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 15Kas Hedi
- DEGermany≈1 in 27Kas Hedi
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hédy itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 264 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
≈28,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hedy in US United States, ID Indonesia, DE Germany and 4 more, Hedi in FR France and Hédi in TN Tunisia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ 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 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hédy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Hedy | 22 |
| TN Tunisia | #287 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 749 | 1.7K | Hédi | 28 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 43K | listed | Hedy | 77 |
| FR France | — | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 3.6K | Hedi | 256 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Hedy | 65 |
| US United States | — | 2,230 | 1 in 149K | 2.2K | Hedy | 264 |
| HU Hungary | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 129 | Hedy | 5 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Hedy | 14 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | 64 | Hedy | 6 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022); magyarnevek.hu — Top-100 newborn given names 2025 (M+F); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hedwig Schneiderb. 1920HUnot in their usual name(1920--1992) classical pianist
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(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Hédy a male or female name?
- Hédy 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.
- In which country does Hédy have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 28 thousand people named Hédy in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hedy.
- How common is the name Hédy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,230 people named Hédy in 2020, about 1 in 149 thousand residents.
- How common is Hédy compared with other names?
- In Tunisia, Hédy is the 287th most common given name of 13,277 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%A9dyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Hédy” — the 287th most common given name in Tunisia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.