Given name & surname
Hoang
“the phoenix”
Hoang is used as a given name and a surname. One Vietnamese interpretation is “the phoenix.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Vietnamese interpretation is “the phoenix.”
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
Hoang through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 801
- 750 boys · 51 girls
- Most popular year
- 1982
- 64 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 5 in 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 53 in 1982. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 9,594 as a first name in 2020; 36,123 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.
Hoang’s family of names
In English usage, Hoang as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with Huang. In French usage, Hoang as a surname was borrowed from the Vietnamese form Hoàng. In English usage, Hoang as a surname has a related form in Huang.
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 Hoang
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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