Entry № 3950 · Dutch origin

Hadewijch Hadewijch — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HAH-deh-vekh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Dutch
Meaning
"Brabantine Beguine mystic poet"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Dutch)

A name that means "brabantine beguine mystic poet".

Hadewijch of Brabant (13th c.) was the Flemish Beguine mystic and poet — one of the writers of vernacular Dutch literature.

Featured in modern anthologies of medieval women mystics.

Brabantine Beguine mystic poet — a Dutch name.

The name in its native script.

Hadewijch
Transliteration
Hadewijch
Pronunciation
/ ˈhɑː.də.vɪx /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hadewijch stands.

Hadewijch does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Hadewijchs before her.

Real people
Hadewijch of Brabant
Flemish Beguine mystic.
13th c.
In fiction
Hadewijch
Subject of Bruno Dumont's Hadewijch.
2009 film

Names connected to Hadewijch.

The number behind Hadewijch.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hadewijch reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.