Hoa — unisex name

What the Data Says About Hoa

The Social Security Administration has registered 270 babies named Hoa between 1975 and 1996, spanning 22 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Hoa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1996. The name reached its historical peak in 1982, when 27 babies received it in a single year. Hoa is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 262 additional births since 1978.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Hoa performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 182 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Hoa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 80 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Hoa in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Hoa in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 270 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.