Surname · Chinese
花
“bloom, flower”
花 is a surname from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Chinese.
ChineseWritten in Chinese characters script.
Meaning & origin
What it means
花 goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *baːr, meaning “bloom, flower.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *baːr (“bloom, flower”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *p(h)a (“idem”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
花’s family of names
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named 花
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
If you love 花, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
Caubi
“forest” · “green”
>99% boys
Zogović
“bird”
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Paio
“of the sea”
>99% boys
Toakase
“a woman of the sea”
27% boys · 73% girls
Araxie
“from the river of inspiration”
2% boys · 98% girls
Bardhyl
“white star” · “white”
99% boys · 1% girls
Sliwa
“plum tree”
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Huayta
“flower”
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