Hedviga

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Hedviga is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Derived from German Hedwig.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 20K(measured from records)
  • LVLatvia1 in 43K
  • CZCzechia1 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). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Czechia (measured from records)

250 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
16 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

HedvigaLatin(measured from records)
ХедвигаCyrillic(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)

Derivation of Hedviga: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Hedviga
  1. GermanHedwig(measured from records)
  2. Old High GermanHaduwig(inferred from the name graph)via Hedwig
  3. Proto-Germanic*Haþuwīgą(inferred from the name graph)via Hedwig
  4. Proto-Germanic root*haþuz“fight”(inferred from the name graph)via Hedwig

Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.

Derived from German Hedwig.

Sources 2

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hedviga 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 Hedviga is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia—2501 in 43K250——
HR Croatia#8722071 in 20K207Hedviga16
LV Latvia—441 in 43K44—2
SI Slovenia—331 in 64K33—1
US United States—≈22 est.≈1 in 15M—Hedviga3
BG Bulgaria—≈6 est.≈1 in 1.1M—Hedviga2

250 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); MVČR — living population register 2017; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); SURS — resident population given 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).

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Hedviga is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

  • Marija Gubeneb. 1872LVnot in their usual nameLatvian composer (1872 - 1947)
  • Malina Hedvigb. 1983SKnot in their usual nameHungarian hate crime victim

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 14 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Hedviga
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—250#853
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021207#1,139
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—125#945
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—125#885
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)2021118—
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names200882#665
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names200975#699
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201071#729
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201168#752
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201365#792
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201265#783
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201462#827

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name 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 Hedviga mean, and where does it come from?
Derived from German Hedwig. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
Is Hedviga a male or female name?
Hedviga is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Hedviga?
In the etymology graph, Jadwiga, Edwige and Hedwig are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Hedviga have the most bearers?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 250 people named Hedviga, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Hedviga most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hedviga is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 20 thousand people — even though Czechia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Hedviga?
In Czechia, the national register counted 250 people named Hedviga, about 1 in 43 thousand residents.
How common is Hedviga compared with other names?
In Croatia, Hedviga is the 872nd most common given name of 14,066 given names recorded there.

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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, “Hedviga” — the 872nd most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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