Hoa
Hoa is a girl name of Vietnamese origin, meaning Flower.
What Hoa means
Flower.
Hoa is short — 3 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Hoa comes from
Vietnamese given names are ordinary words with clear meanings — flowers, virtues, natural features — chosen for what they say rather than inherited from a set of traditional names.
Hoa is recorded as Vietnamese in origin. Browse other Vietnamese names.
How popular is Hoa?
Hoa sits outside the top 100 girl names we currently track. For many parents that is the appeal: a name with genuine history behind it that has not been picked up by everyone at once.
The character of Hoa
We group Hoa under flowers and growing things and the natural world — an unusual pairing, and often the reason a name feels the way it does. Each theme opens a full list of names sharing it.
Names like Hoa
These share Hoa's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Mai — Plum blossom; apricot flower.
- Hana — Flower, blossom.
- Daisy — The day's-eye flower.
- Daphne — The laurel tree.
- Hadley — Field of heather.
- Heather — The flowering heath shrub.
- Hua — Flower; magnificent.
- Iris — Rainbow; messenger of the gods.
- Lily — The lily flower — purity and beauty.
- Rose — The rose flower.
- Sakura — Cherry blossom.
- Violet — The violet flower; the color purple.