Given name & surname
Hoa
“one who is peaceful; resembling a flower”
Hoa is used as a given name and a surname. One Vietnamese interpretation is “one who is peaceful; resembling a flower.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Vietnamese interpretation is “one who is peaceful; resembling a flower.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Vietnamese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1975. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hoa through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 532
- 262 boys · 270 girls
- Most popular year
- 1982
- 48 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
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- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2004. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 14,424 as a first name in 2020; 407 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Hoa’s family of names
Hoa has a related form in Hoai. Hoa has a related form in Hoah.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Hoa
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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