Hedi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ) Hedy: weibl. Vom., Koseform von
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɛdi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hedi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 15K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 27K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 43K
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 Hedi 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 749 (inferred from the name graph)
≈28,000 named Hedy, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Tunisia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hedy in ID Indonesia, DE Germany, HU Hungary and 3 more 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(measured from records)
) Hedy: weibl. Vom., Koseform von
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hedi 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 |
| BR Brazil | — | 929 | 1 in 228K | 1.1K | — | — |
| 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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hedi is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In bpz, pain, sickness; painful
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Latin, inflection of hedus:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hédi Nouirab. 1911TNTunisian politician (1911-1993)
- Hédi Friedb. 1924SESwedish writer; survivor of the Holocaust
- Hédi Temessyb. 1925HUHungarian actress (1925-2001)
- Hédi Baccoucheb. 1930TNTunisian politician (1930-2020)
- El Hedi ben Salemb. 1935MAMoroccan actor (1935-1976)
- Hédi Annabib. 1943TNTunisian diplomat (1943-2010)
- Hédi Kaddourb. 1945FRFrench poet and writer
- Hedi Kriegeskotteb. 1949DEGerman film actor and stage actor
- Hedi Slimaneb. 1968FRFrench Tunisian fashion designer (born 1968)
- Hedi Bouchenafaactor
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 59 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 3.6K | #558 |
| TN Tunisia | INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022) | 1960 | 1.7K | #5 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.1K | #8,435 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 929 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 882 | #8,706 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 244 | #437 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 47 | #8,706 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 34 | — |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| TN Tunisia | INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022) | 1922 | — | #8 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- How do you pronounce Hedi?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛdi/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Hedi mean, and where does it come from?
- ) Hedy: weibl. Vom., Koseform von Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen.
- In which country does Hedi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 28 thousand people named Hedy in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Is Hedi a male or female name?
- Hedi 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.
- How common is the name Hedi?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 929 people named Hedi in 2022, about 1 in 228 thousand residents.
- How common is Hedi compared with other names?
- In Tunisia, Hedi is the 287th most common given name of 13,277 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hedi?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hediThe 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, “Hedi” — the 287th most common given name in Tunisia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.