Húa
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Húa is a male 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. Recorded meaning: Variant of hooer. Sometimes erroneously thought to be borrowed from Maori. Húa is also written Сюй in Cyrillic, ჰუ in Georgian and Ξου in Greek.
- BRBrazil1 in 1.6M(measured from records)
- INIndia1 in 221M
- CNChina≈1 in 54as Xu
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 Húa 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)
- Record sources
- 440 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.6M (inferred from the name graph)
≈26,000,000 named Xu, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Húa in other scripts: Latin, Cyrillic, Georgian and 1 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Xu in US United States, CN China, SG Singapore and 3 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)Variant of hooer. Sometimes erroneously thought to be borrowed from Maori.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Húa is found
(measured from records)Húa 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 | ≈26,000,000 est. | ≈1 in 54 | — | Xu | 237 |
| VN Vietnam | #79 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 596 | listed | Hoa | 217 |
| TW Taiwan | #284 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 232 | — | Xu | 102 |
| US United States | #778 | 25,622as Xu | 1 in 13K | 44K | Xu | 440 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 23K | listed | Hu | 83 |
| HK Hong Kong | #82 | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Xu | 97 |
| SG Singapore | #69 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Xu | 119 |
| BR Brazil | — | 135 | 1 in 1.6M | 135 | Xu | 43 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)Húa 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 kix, To flick by a hand.
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Húa mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of hooer. Sometimes erroneously thought to be borrowed from Maori. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Is Húa a male or female name?
- Húa is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Húa?
- Mondonomo estimates about 26 million people named Xu in China, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Vietnam, Taiwan, United States and Indonesia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Húa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Húa is densest in Brazil — about 1 in 1.6 million people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Húa?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 135 people named Húa, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
- How common is Húa compared with other names?
- In China, Húa is the 315th most common surname of 142,871 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Húa?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%BAaThe 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, “Húa” — the 315th most common surname in China. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.