Hedy

Where Hedy comes from

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  • Vowel-ended
Hedy through the years
  1. 1914
    Hedy Lamarr born
    Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping
  2. 1915
    First appearance
    #3,434 among girls with 7 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1923
    Hedy Schlunegger born
    alpine skier
  4. 1941
    Peak, #693
    102 babies named Hedy, its best rank.
  5. 1944
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,104.
In the dictionary

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Namesakes
  • Hedy Lamarr · Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping, 1914–2000
  • Hedy Schlunegger · alpine skier, 1923–2003
  • Hedy Burress · American actress, born 1973
  • Hedy Bienenfeld · Austrian swimmer, 1907–1976
  • Hedy d'Ancona · Dutch politician, born 1937

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.