Hedvig

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

Nordic spelling of Hedwig ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Related Names

See Haduwig

Name Days

Norway

15 October

Finland (Swedish Language)

15 October

Sweden

15 October

Further Information

Namesakes

Hedvig Eleonora av Holstein-Gottorp (born Hedwig Eleonora von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf, 23 October 1636 – 24 November 1715), Swedish queen consort of king Karl X Gustav

Hedvig Ulrika Taube (1714 – 11 February 1744), Countess von Hessenstein and Swedish noble and salonist, official royal mistress to the Swedish king Fredrik I

Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht (28 November 1718 – 29 June 1763), Swedish poet, feminist and salon hostess

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[4]		2268	5300	1	1
Norway[5]		604	989	0	0
Denmark[6]		543	n.a.	0	n.a
Finland[7]		n.a.	1909	n.a	3
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent statistics trend^[4][6][5][7]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[5]:

Sources: ^{[4] [6] [5] [7]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
3. ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
4. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi