Hòa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sino-Vietnamese: “harmonious, peaceful”; in the poem dedicated to Kiến An vương, son of Gia Long and brother of Minh Mạng
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hòa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Singapore it is the 69th most common surname.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 622(inferred from the name graph)
- CNChina≈1 in 195as Xu
- TWTaiwan≈1 in 334as Hu
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hòa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 440 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 622 (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,200,000 named Xu, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Xu in US United States, CN China, SG Singapore and 2 more, Hoa in VN Vietnam and Hu in ID Indonesia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Sino-Vietnamese: “harmonious, peaceful”; in the poem dedicated to Kiến An vương, son of Gia Long and brother of Minh Mạng.
Sources 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hòa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | #315 | ≈7,200,000 est. | ≈1 in 195 | — | Xu | 237 |
| VN Vietnam | #79 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 622 | listed | Hoa | 217 |
| TW Taiwan | #284 | ≈71,000 est. | ≈1 in 334 | — | Xu | 102 |
| US United States | #778 | 25,622as Xu | 1 in 13K | 44K | Xu | 440 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | listed | Hu | 83 |
| HK Hong Kong | #82 | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Xu | 97 |
| SG Singapore | #69 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Xu | 119 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the vn-kaggle-given register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hòa is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Vietnamese, alternative spelling of Hoà
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Vietnamese, Peace
as a nameVietnamese Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 37)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Cheng Heb. 1854not in their usual nameRepublic of China person CBDB = 89930
- Cheng Heb. 1859not in their usual nameQing dynasty politician
- Pan Heb. 1873not in their usual nameRepublic of China person CBDB = 91451
- Paul Nguyễn Văn Hòab. 1931VNVietnamese Catholic bishop (1931-2017)
- Hòa Minzyb. 1995VNVietnamese singer and actress (born 1995)
- Dong Henot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 360733
- Qian Henot in their usual nameSong dynasty person CBDB=13104
- Lin Henot in their usual nameSong dynasty person (CBDB = 42548)
- Li Henot in their usual nameTang dynasty person CBDB = 174825
- Yu Henot in their usual nameperson, CBDB ID = 399764
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | Vietnamese given names (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hòa mean, and where does it come from?
- Sino-Vietnamese: “harmonious, peaceful”; in the poem dedicated to Kiến An vương, son of Gia Long and brother of Minh Mạng. Recorded by Tên Họ Người Việt Nam.
- Is Hòa a male or female name?
- Hòa is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Hòa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.2 million people named Xu in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Hòa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 25,622 people named Xu in 2010, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Hòa compared with other names?
- In China, Hòa is the 315th most common surname of 142,871 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%B2aThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hòa” — the 315th most common surname in China. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.