Hedwig
Recorded for girlsGreatest Generation2025 rank
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not recorded in 2025
2025 births
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All-time births
3,077
peak year 1918
More common than
95%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1918
- 159 births
- Best rank
- #363
- in 1891
- First recorded
- 1880
- #704 that year
- Last recorded
- 1968
- no later published record
- Average birth year
- 1916
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 83 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 1918159#563Peak
- 1916157#527
- 1915152#504
- 1919152#559
- 1917137#577
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #363 in 1891 · peak births 159 in 1918
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Hedwig has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.
The boys' series
No boys have been recorded with this name.
Stated, not plotted as zero — the split bar and the unisex badge are omitted rather than drawn empty.