Hedvig

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Female Name

Usage

Old Danish
Old Swedish
Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
Greenlandic
Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

Nordic spelling of Hedwig

Related Names

See Haduwig

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Hedvig
Genitive:	Hedvigs

- Finnish
Nominative:	Hedvig
Genitive:	Hedvigin
Partitive:	Hedvigiä

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Hedvig
Genitive:	Hedvigs

- Swedish
Nominative:	Hedvig
Genitive:	Hedvigs

Name Days

Norway

15 October

Finland (Swedish Language)

15 October

Sweden

15 October

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark: 13th century
• Sweden: 1578
• Norway: 18th century

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden:
  • -1919
  • 1885-1909
• Denmark:
  • 1900-1919
  • -1950
• Norway:
  • early 20th century
  • 2000-
• Finland:
  • -1940

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway:
  • 18th century:
    • Telemark
    • Finnmark
  • 20th century:
    • Akershus
    • Østfold
• Denmark:
  • Bornholm
• Sweden:
  • Södermanland (19th century) see map
  • Gotland (19th century) see map
  • Närke (19th century) see map
  • Uppland (19th century) see map
  • Västmanland (19th century) see map
  • Närke (19th century) see map
  • Östergötland (19th century) see map
  • Västsverige
  • Gotland

Namesakes

• Sweden:
  • 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
  • Hedvig Amalia af Petersens (18 October 1875 - 11 November 1961), Swedish journalist and writer

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 10185 people were named Hedvig (percentage of first or only given name: 62 %)

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country	Commonness Commonness	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Sweden		3231	6316	3227	6311	4	5
Finland		n.a.	1975	n.a.	1975	0	0
Denmark		451	n.a.	451	n.a.	0	n.a.
Greenland		32	135	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Iceland		2	5	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		1396	n.a.	1396	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
#: 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.

 

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Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Hedvig (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.