Hedges
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hedges is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Middx, Oxon, Berks,. variant of Hedge , from the plural or with excrescent -s.
- USUnited States1 in 35K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 304K
- FIFinland1 in 464K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
9,625 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Main GB Location (1881): Middx, Oxon, Berks,. variant of Hedge , from the plural or with excrescent -s.
Sources 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hedges 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 | 9,625 | 1 in 35K | 9.6K | Hedges | 13 |
| ES Spain | 37 | 1 in 1.4M | 37 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 28 | 1 in 7.6M | 28 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 23 | 1 in 510K | 23 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 18 | 1 in 304K | 18 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 12 | 1 in 464K | 12 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 10 | 1 in 510K | 10 | — | — |
9,625 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
- Charles Hedgesb. 1650British politician
- Frederick Hedgesb. 1903CACanadian rower (1903–1989)
- Benjamin Hedgesb. 1907USAmerican high jumper (1907–1969)
- Michael Hedgesb. 1953USAmerican guitarist (1953–1997)
- Mike Hedgesb. 1953GBBritish record producer
- Chris Hedgesb. 1956USAmerican journalist
- Peter Hedgesb. 1962USAmerican novelist, screenwriter, film director
- Matt Hedgesb. 1990USAmerican soccer player
- Ryan Hedgesb. 1995GBWelsh footballer (born 1995)
- Lucas Hedgesb. 1996USAmerican actor
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 25 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9.6K | #3,690 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 9.4K | #3,489 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 9.1K | #3,794 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 37 | #55,417 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 37 | #54,555 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 28 | #156,028 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 23 | #43,569 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 18 | #43,924 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 12 | #43,634 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 10 | #5,479 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hedges mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Middx, Oxon, Berks,. variant of Hedge , from the plural or with excrescent -s. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
- What are other forms of the name Hedges?
- In the etymology graph, English is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Hedges have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 9.6 thousand people named Hedges, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hedges.
- Where is Hedges most common?
- Hedges is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 35 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hedges?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,625 people named Hedges in 2010, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.
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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hedgesThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Hedges”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.