Hồ: meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Hồ comes from Chinese.

Hồ’s family of names

In Vietnamese usage, Hồ as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the English form Hu. In Vietnamese usage, Hồ as a surname can be written in the Roman alphabet as 胡.

Walk Hồ’s family in the name graph

Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Around the world

Hồ has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Chinese roots to each of them.

3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Dots on the border stand for languages further away. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

胡romanization · Vietnamese

Across languages 2

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

Similar names

If you love Hồ, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

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Sibling ideas

Names that share Hồ’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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