Hoi
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Vietnamese: smelly, foul
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/hɔj˧˥/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hoi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 533(inferred from the name graph)
- VNVietnam≈1 in 3K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 8.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 109 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 533 (inferred from the name graph)
≈67,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Alternative form of hoy, hey! a call to gain someone's attention.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Hoi is read(measured from records)
Hoi is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Vietnamese36%
smelly, foul
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English28%
Alternative form of hoy, hey! a call to gain someone's attention.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Chinese18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hoi in Chinese.
- Malay6.5%
hey; interjection used to call out to people
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hoi 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 | — | ≈67,000 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Hoi | 16 |
| VN Vietnam | #199 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | listed | Hoi | 109 |
| HK Hong Kong | #213 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 533 | — | Hoi | 37 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Hoi | 59 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 151K | listed | Hoi | 37 |
| US United States | — | 1,561 | 1 in 213K | 930 | Hoi | 85 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Hoi | 30 |
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 wgnd-vn-names register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the id-github-names register. 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)
Hoi is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In cdo, Mixed up; refuse, sweep- in <i;s, dirt; sound of broak- ini; things : coa【.， "lala chaki refuse, odds and ends. Wranglin [；, noisy, clam- orous, turbulent. Chiiki. A coll. word ； us chifki rho、 to slasli nnd HM car, like au infuriated woiuaiu
as a wordAn Alphabetic Dictionary of the Chinese Language in the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, to shun, to dread, taboo, to conceal, name of a dead person
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In lld, A greeting acknowledging someone’s arrival or presence, comparable to English hey, hi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- John H. ChauUSnot in their usual nameplant evolutionary biologist
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 930 | #9,072 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 631 | #9,072 |
| ID Indonesia | KPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub) | — | — | — |
| VN Vietnam | WGND 2.0 — Vietnam given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Where does the name Hoi come from?
- Alternative form of hoy, hey! a call to gain someone's attention. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Hoi?
- A machine transcription gives /hɔj˧˥/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- What does the name Hoi mean?
- In Vietnamese, smelly, foul
- Is Hoi a male or female name?
- Hoi 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 Hoi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 67 thousand people named Hoi in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hoi.
- How common is the name Hoi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,561 people named Hoi in 2020, about 1 in 213 thousand residents.
- How common is Hoi compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Hoi is the 199th most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hoi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hoiThe 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, “Hoi” — the 199th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.