Hoài

given name · Latin script

Meaning: ceaselessly, constantly, all the time

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Hoài is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 361K(measured from records)
  • ISIceland1 in 58K
  • SESweden1 in 88K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

922 people, 2020

Sources
89 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)

Iceland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Hoai in US United States, SE Sweden, NL Netherlands.

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)

ceaselessly, constantly, all the time

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hoài 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.

Where Hoài is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States9221 in 361K555Hoai89
SE Sweden1161 in 88K116Hoai8
FI Finland361 in 155K85—5
NL Netherlands351 in 494K20Hoai5
DK Denmark201 in 293K12——
IS Iceland61 in 58K6——

922 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Hoài is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Germany, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Hoai, Hoäi, Hòai, Hoaei

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Hoai

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Canada

    Also written Hoai, Hoaï

  • Khmer given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Cambodia

    Also written Hoai

  • Vietnamese given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Vietnam, United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Vietnamese, Malay, Indonesian

    Also written Hoai, Hòai

  • Hindi given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Hoai, Hòai

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Hoài is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Vietnamese, Hán-Việt: hoài, nhớ nghĩ/ôm giữ; trong bài đặt tên cho Định Viễn quận vương.

    as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam

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)

0500100015002000Guo Huai, b. 187Huang Huai, b. 1367Yun Hoe, b. 1380Shi Huai, b. 1442Xu Huai, b. 1474Yuan Huai, b. 1493Van Tien Dung, b. 1917
  • Guo Huaib. 187CNnot in their usual nameChinese Cao Wei state general (died 255)
  • Huang Huaib. 1367CNnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 34482
  • Yun Hoeb. 1380not in their usual nameGoryeo and Joseon Confucian scholar (1380 - 1436)
  • Shi Huaib. 1442not in their usual namepolitician
  • Xu Huaib. 1474CNnot in their usual namepolitician
  • Yuan Huaib. 1493not in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 201988
  • Van Tien Dungb. 1917VNnot in their usual nameGeneral of the Vietnam People's Army (1917-2002)
  • Hang Huainot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 34643
  • Yan Huainot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 272729
  • Gao Huainot in their usual nameMing dynasty eunuch CBDB = 129387

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 5 sources across 3 countries.

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 Hoài mean, and where does it come from?
ceaselessly, constantly, all the time Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Hoài a male or female name?
Hoài 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 Hoài have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 922 people named Hoài, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hoai.
Where is Hoài most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hoài is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 58 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Hoài?
In the United States, the national register counted 922 people named Hoài in 2020, about 1 in 361 thousand residents.

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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, “Hoài”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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