Sweet.

They also predict which names will be popular in 2015 – http://www.babynamesgarden.com/freakonomicswatch.aspx

I typed “Hedda” but nothing came up.

Henrik Ibsen, who is regarded as a super-realist, was very inventive when it came to names (which is to say, he consistently came up with names that are much more interesting and telling than Norwegian names of the period generally were). “Hedda” is actually a made-up name of his.

There have been a couple of American Heddas (all post-Ibsen) but the name is so rare that it doesn’t register at all on this baby-name website.

Hedda Hopper for instance (Wikipedia: “… an American actress and gossip columnist, whose long-running feud with friend turned arch-rival Louella Parsons became at least as notorious as many of Hopper’s columns”).

Hedda Hopper was born in 1880 as Elda Furry (Hedda Gabler was premiered in 1891 and the play was first shown in the U.S. in 1898).

In 1920, or thereabouts, Elda the wannabe actress decided she needed a new name. According to Wikipedia she paid a numerologist $10 to tell her what name she should use, and the answer was Hedda. Well, the name seems to have served her well. Not as an actress though but as a gossip columnist.

The same goes for Elda as Zelda: these names reached their peak of popularity in the 1910s but had totally fallen out of fashion by mid-century. But Hedda never caught on, not in the U.S. or anywhere else.