Given name & surname · also Hokkien

Kwa

Kwa is a surname from Hokkien, ultimately from Teochew.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Kwa comes from Hokkien, and ultimately from Teochew.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Kwa’s family of names

In Japanese usage, Kwa is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 華.

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Kwa華

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Teochew

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No U.S. birth series

47% boys · 53% girls

Sibling ideas

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

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