Houa — unisex name

What the Data Says About Houa

The Social Security Administration has registered 181 babies named Houa between 1981 and 2002, spanning 22 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Houa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2002. The name reached its historical peak in 1992, when 17 babies received it in a single year. Houa is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 79 additional births since 1981.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Houa performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 99 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Houa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 48 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Houa in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Houa 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 181 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.