Hediger

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Hediger is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: variant of Hedinger.

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 4.4K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 655K
  • ARArgentina1 in 875K

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.

Switzerland (measured from records)

1,927 people, 2024

Sources
58 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

variant of Hedinger.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hediger 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.

Where Hediger is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CH Switzerland1,9271 in 4.4K1.9KHediger20
US United States5081 in 655K512Hediger26
AR Argentina521 in 875K52——
BR Brazil231 in 9.2M23——
ES Spain131 in 3.8M13—1
SE Sweden31 in 3.4M3——
DK Denmark31 in 2M3——

1,927 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Hediger is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Hédiger

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt, United States, United Arab Emirates

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

190019502000Heini Hediger, b. 1908Marianne Hediger, b. 1921Kurt Hediger, b. 1932André Hediger, b. 1941Helmut Hediger, b. 1945Daniel Hediger, b. 1958Markus Hediger, b. 1959Dennis Hediger, b. 1986Jovian Hediger, b. 1990Sophie Hediger, b. 1998

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 21 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Hediger
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20241.9K#507
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000512#40,265
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010508#42,640
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020465#48,977
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—52—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—23#177,962
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—13#105,312
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—3#68,095
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—3#77,202
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • 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)

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 Hediger mean, and where does it come from?
variant of Hedinger. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Hediger have the most bearers?
In Switzerland, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Hediger, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hediger.
Where is Hediger most common?
Hediger is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.4 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Hediger?
In Switzerland, the national register counted 1,927 people named Hediger in 2024, about 1 in 4.4 thousand residents.

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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, “Hediger”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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