Hoang
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Hoang has been given to 801 babies in the U.S. since 1975. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1982, with 53 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% boys, 6% girls all-time.
Babies named Hoang, 2020
1 in 668,000
Hoang over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Hoang over time
In 2020, Hoang went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Hoang?
Hoang had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2020
- 1 in 668,000
- 5 of 3,342,313 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 345,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2020
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 463,344 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Hoang sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hoang. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Hoangs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Hoang was born before 1989 — so the typical Hoang is around 36 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 42.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 29.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 750
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 42.5% of all recorded uses (319).
Is Hoang rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1982 (53)
- Years since peak
- 43
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.7% average annual change
Spellings of Hoang
Hoang is not the most common spelling — Hank is, with 28.1% against Hoang's 1.2%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Hoang is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Hoang was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 144,004 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2Louisiana1 in 100,000
- 3Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Hoang has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Hoang is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Hoang was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Hoang has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Hoang around the world
Where Hoang ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2000–2021#4,789in 2021
- France1976–2022#6,928in 2022
- Canada1991–2020#2,945in 2020
- South Australia1979–2013#499in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Hoang by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Hoang
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Hoang
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.