The Hegedus surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,704 people carried this name — #16,765 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 172,400 people counted. That is up 6% from 1,610 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Hegedus surname
A male surname from Hungarian.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Hegedűs» (Slovak), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
109 people named Hegedus live in Switzerland.
They live in 11 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 55 people named Hegedus.
26 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 8 départements, most often Paris.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
53 people named Hegedus is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Hegedus in American newspapers,
1915–1928.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain.
Who carried it
People named Hegedus,
with a public archive behind them.
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Chris Hegedus 1952– · screenwriter -
Ladislav Hegedus 1911–1940
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Alexandre Hegedus 1913–1997
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Olga Hegedus 1920–2017 · cellist
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Sandra Lee Couldwell 1954–1990
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Janka Hegedus 1994– · basketball player
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 12 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Hegedus.
When the index is not enough
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