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Hedwig
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Usage
Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
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Origin and Meaning
German younger form of Hadwig [1] [2] [3] [4]
Related Names
See Haduwig
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Hedwig |
| Genitive: | Hedwigs |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Hedwig |
| Genitive: | Hedwigin |
| Partitive: | Hedwigiä |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Hedwig |
| Genitive: | Hedwigs |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Hedwig |
| Genitive: | Hedwigs |
Further Information
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
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
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 265 people were named Hedwig (percentage of first or only given name: 45 %) [5]
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[6] |
  |
195 | 431 | 195 | 431 | 0 | 0 |
| Finland[7] |
 |
n.a. |
81 | n.a. |
81 | 0 | 0 |
| Denmark[8] |
|
21 | n.a. |
21 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
 Iceland[9] |
  |
1 | 1 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[10] |
|
45 | n.a. |
45 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
 Greenland[11] |
  |
0 | 0 | n.a. |
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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Recent Statistics Trend
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References
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/