Entry № 4156 · Germanic origin

Hedda Hedda — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HED-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Germanic
Meaning
"Battle / iconic Ibsen Hedda Gabler"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Germanic)

A name that means "battle / iconic ibsen hedda gabler".

Hedda is from the Germanic hadu (battle, war) — short form of Hedwig. Princess Hedda — Germanic heritage naming.

Battle / iconic Ibsen Hedda Gabler — a Germanic name.

The name in its native script.

Hedda
Transliteration
Hedda
Pronunciation
/ ˈhɛd.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hedda stands.

Hedda 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.

Heddas before her.

Real people
Hedda Hopper
Iconic Hollywood gossip columnist.
1885 – 1966
Hedda Sterne
Romanian-American Irascibles painter.
1910 – 2011
In fiction
Hedda Gabler
Iconic Ibsen 1890 play.
1890

Names connected to Hedda.

The number behind Hedda.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hedda reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.