Entry № 4161 · German origin

Hedy Hedy — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HEH-dee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
German
Meaning
"Battle (movie star who patented frequency-hopping)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (German)

A name that means "battle (movie star who patented frequency-hopping)".

Hedy is a German diminutive of Hedwig (Old Germanic hadu + wig: "battle combat"). U.S.

Battle (movie star who patented frequency-hopping) — a German name.

The name in its native script.

Hedy
Transliteration
Hedy
Pronunciation
/ ˈhɛd.i /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hedy stands.

Hedy 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.

Hedys before her.

Real people
Hedy Lamarr
Film star and inventor.
1914 – 2000
In fiction
Hedy
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story.
2017

Names connected to Hedy.

The number behind Hedy.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hedy reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.