| Origin: | From Old High German words for fight, battle and fight, battle, war | Tools: Add to favorites Generate: Twitter-able text SMS text Compare to: Behind the Name Search with: Wikipedia NNDB IMDb Google |
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| Name info: About the name Hedwig in particular | | Gender: | female |
| Languages of use: | German |
| Diminutives: | Hedi, Hedy |
| Short forms: | Hede |
| Topics: | Asteroid 476 Hedwig, discovered 1901, diameter 116.76 km, period 27.33 years |
| Saints: | Hedwig |
| US 2021 rank: | not in the Top 1000; other popularity lists see below |
| Similarly written: | Hedvig, Hedwige, Herwig, Edwige, Edwin, Gerwig, Harwig, Hedi, Hedi, Hédi Details |
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| Group info: About Hedwig, the group of names with the same origin as Hedwig | | Language of origin: | Old High German |
| Words: | hadu = the fight, the battle Old High German |
| | wig = the fight, the battle, the war Old High German |
| Topics: | Two-element name |
| Variants' top ranks: | 11:Hedda Norway 2021, 17:Jadwiga Poland 2012, 21:Hedvig Norway 2022, 75:Hédi Hungary 2018, 89:Hedwig Germany 2005 |
| Old/original forms: | Haduwig Old High German |
| Name variants: | Edvige, Edwige, Heda, Hedda, Hede, Hedi, Hédi, Hedvig, Hedvika, Hedwig, Hedwige, Hedy, Helvi, Hetty, Jadwiga Sortable list Details |
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| Popularity: Popularity lists that contain the name Hedwig | |
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