Huā
surname · Latin script
Huā is a surname 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.
- CNChina≈1 in 195as Xu(inferred from the name graph)
- TWTaiwan≈1 in 334as Hu
- VNVietnam≈1 in 622as Hoa
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 Huā 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 1.6M (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,200,000 named Xu, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil
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 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.
Sources 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Huā 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 |
| 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- He Huab. 1990CNChinese actress
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Huā 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.
- In which country does Huā have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.2 million people named Xu in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Huā most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Huā 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 Huā?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 135 people named Huā, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
- How common is Huā compared with other names?
- In China, Huā is the 315th most common surname of 142,871 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hu%C4%81The 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, “Huā” — the 315th most common surname in China. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.