How rare is the name Hoa?

14,424 people in the United States have the first name Hoa, about 1 in 20,940. It ranks #1,942 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

HOA

#1,942

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
14,424
About
1 in 20,940
This common or more
77.8%
Who bears it

Of the 14,424 people named Hoa, 98.7% reported their origin as Asian or Pacific Islander. 66.5% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Hoa peaked in 1982, when 48 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19752004
Peak year
1982
Births that year
48
In 2004
5 ▼90%
Recorded as
used for both

At least 532 babies have been given the name since 1975. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Hoa by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #4,618. The largest share of babies named Hoa, 80.5%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1970s#13,18840
1980s#4,618320
1990s#9,935149
2000s#31,81123
Generation X 1965–8013.2%
Millennials 1981–9680.5%
Generation Z 1997–126.4%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Either side of Hoa

#1,940 Cohen · 14,451#1,941 Rohan · 14,448#1,943 Juancarlos · 14,400#1,944 Lorrie · 14,398

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Hoa, most common first.

#5,690 Ho · 2,969#9,072 Hoi · 1,561#12,935 Houa · 946#13,184 Hoai · 922#23,725 Hoy · 411#31,941 Hou · 266#36,929 Hoe · 213#42,480 How · 169

Also a last name

As a last name, Hoa ranks #54,637 of 156,621, with 407 people. See Hoa as a last name

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