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Hoda

#10,403 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Huda

Hoda has been given to 517 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #10,403 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1987, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Hoda, 2025

1 in 368,000

Hoda over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hoda: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Huda

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hoda means

Hoda is a form of Huda.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Hoda → Huda. The family’s meaning is “guidance”, recorded in English with the source elements hudan.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Huda.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 517 girls were recorded with the name Hoda between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1987; its best national rank was #4,169 in 1987.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,647 in 2020 to #10,403 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,721 in 2015 to #10,403 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Hoda?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,403
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hoda sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hoda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hodas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hoda was born before 2000 — so the typical Hoda is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
23.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
48.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
517
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 23.4% of all recorded uses (121).

Is Hoda 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
+2,254
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,244
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−682
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.82×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
45.0%
Peak was 1987 (20)
Years since peak
38
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,169
1987

Spellings of Hoda

Hoda is not the most common spelling — Rhonda is, with 8.9% against Hoda's 0.02%.

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 Hoda is used

Across 1910–2025, Hoda was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,084,400 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Hoda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hoda around the world

Where Hoda 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 & Wales
    1996–2022
    #3,534
    in 2022
  • France
    1971–2025
    #3,696
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,463
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1975–2005
    #775
    in 2005

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.

Hoda by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,403
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,244
Best rank ever
#4,169
1987
Peak year
1987
20 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
517
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Hoda

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Hoda

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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