Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Hoan isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1982. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hoan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 43
- 43 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1988
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 1990. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 1988. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,434 as a first name in 2020; 113 as a surname in 2000.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Hoan’s family of names
In Indonesian usage, Hoan as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with Fam.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Hoan
- Nguyễn Công HoanVietnamese writer (1903-1977)
- Hoàng Văn HoanVietnamese politician (1905–1991)
- Paul Nguyễn Thanh HoanVietnamese Catholic bishop (1939-2014)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
If you love Hoan, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
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>99% boys
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“from the beautiful farmland; of the divine”
85% boys · 15% girls
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“crowned with garland”
>99% boys
Sheldon
“from the steep valley”
>99% boys
Johnathon
“God has given” · “a gift of God”
>99% boys
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“learned” · “instigator”
>99% boys
German
“a man from Germany” · “one who is brotherly”
>99% boys