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Jadwiga

Girls' name

Form of Hedwig

Jadwiga has been given to 85 babies in the U.S. since 1912. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1917, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Jadwiga, 1922

1 in 254,000

Jadwiga over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jadwiga: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Hedwig

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jadwiga means

Jadwiga is a form of Hedwig.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Jadwiga is used in Polish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /jad.ˈvi.ɡa/ for Jadwiga.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Jadwiga → Hedwig. The family’s meaning is “fight + battle”, recorded in English with the source elements haþuz and wīgą.

Origin, language, and formation

Jadwiga comes through Old Polish Jadwiga and Old High German Haduwig//Hadwig.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hedwig.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Jadwiga is pronounced /jaˈdvi.ɡa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 85 girls were recorded with the name Jadwiga between 1912 and 1922. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1917; its best national rank was #2,240 in 1912.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jadwiga?

Jadwiga had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1922, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1922
1 in 254,000
9 of 2,289,103 births
Among girls only
1 in 133,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1922
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
176,300 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jadwiga sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1922 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 176,300 children born in 1922 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jadwiga. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jadwigas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jadwiga was born before 1917 — so the typical Jadwiga is around 108 today.

Median birth year
1917
About 108 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
83.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
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1910s — 83.5% of all recorded uses (71).

Is Jadwiga rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1917 (13)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,240
1912

Spellings of Jadwiga

Jadwiga is not the most common spelling — Jadzia is, with 88.4% against Jadwiga's 11.6%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Jadwiga is used

Across 1910–2025, Jadwiga was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,647,641 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jadwiga has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jadwiga around the world

Where Jadwiga ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2010–2010
    #5,707
    in 2010
  • France
    1923–1953
    #1,214
    in 1953
  • South Australia
    1949–1959
    #625
    in 1959

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jadwiga by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,240
1912
Peak year
1917
13 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
1922
All-time count
85
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jadwiga

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Jadwiga

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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