Entry № 4148 · Swedish origin

Hedvig Hedvig — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Swedish
Meaning
"A warrior in battle"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a warrior in battle".

Hedvig is a name of Swedish origin, meaning a warrior in battle.

A warrior in battle — a Swedish name.

The name in its native script.

Hedvig
Transliteration
Hedvig
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Hedvig stands.

Hedvig 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.

Hedvigs before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Hedvig.

The number behind Hedvig.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hedvig reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.