Hagedorn
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from hag- ‘hedge’ + Dorn ‘thorn’; also used as a plant-based nickname
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈhæɡɪdɝn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hagedorn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 81K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 4.1M
- DKDenmark1 in 17K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 192 (measured from records)
- 1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
4,116 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from hag- ‘hedge’ + Dorn ‘thorn’; also used as a plant-based nickname
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hagedorn 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 4,116 | 1 in 81K | 4.2K | Hagedorn | 192 |
| DK Denmark | — | 338 | 1 in 17K | 338 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 149 | 1 in 1.4M | 149 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | — | 129 | 1 in 297K | 67 | Hagedorn | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 124 | 1 in 139K | 124 | Hagedorn | 20 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 105 | 1 in 80K | 105 | Hagedorn | 20 |
| SE Sweden | — | 86 | 1 in 119K | 86 | Hagedorn | 11 |
| DE Germany | #874 | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 4.1M | — | Hagedorn | 148 |
4,116 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Hagedorn is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, topographic name from Middle High German hagedorn ‘hawthorn’, from hac ‘hedge’ -i- dorn ‘thorn’. Compare Hawthorne. This surname is also well established in Denmark.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, habitational name from the common place name Hagedoom, of the same etymology as 1.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, hawthorn
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Toponymischer Wohnstättenname zu mhd., mnd. hagedorn 'Weißdorn'; i.d.R. Name zu Hecken/Zäunen oder eingehegten Flächen bzw. entsprechenden Toponymen, höchstens ausnahmsweise zu einzelnen Büschen; 3511 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
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)
- Hermann Hagedornb. 1882USAmerican writer and academic (1882–1964)
- Hans Christian Hagedornb. 1888DKDanish physician (1888–1971)
- August Hagedornb. 1888DEGerman politician (1888-1969)
- Rolf Hagedornb. 1919DEGerman theoretical physicist (1919–2003)
- Karl Hagedornb. 1922DEGerman-American artist (1922-2005)
- Jessica Hagedornb. 1949USFilipino-American playwright, writer, poet, storyteller, musician, multimedia performance artist
- Bettina Hagedornb. 1955DEGerman politician
- Katherine Hagedornb. 1961USAmerican academic, educator, and Santerian
- Jim Hagedornb. 1962USU.S. Representative from Minnesota
- Britt Hagedornb. 1972DEGerman television personality
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.2K | #7,296 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.1K | #8,040 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4K | #8,029 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 338 | #1,370 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 149 | #46,646 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 124 | #15,961 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 105 | #10,642 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 86 | #8,160 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 67 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 67 | #40,671 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 62 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 62 | #42,571 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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
- What does the name Hagedorn mean, and where does it come from?
- from hag- ‘hedge’ + Dorn ‘thorn’; also used as a plant-based nickname Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Hagedorn?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhæɡɪdɝn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hagedorn have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.1 thousand people named Hagedorn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hagedorn.
- Where is Hagedorn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hagedorn is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 17 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hagedorn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,116 people named Hagedorn in 2010, about 1 in 81 thousand residents.
- How common is Hagedorn compared with other names?
- In Germany, Hagedorn is the 874th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hagedornThe 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, “Hagedorn” — the 874th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.