Hoai
given name · Vietnamese · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hoai is a given name, most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is the 76th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Vietnamese and English, written in the Latin script.
- VNVietnam1 in 483◐
- USUnited States1 in 599K
- MOMacao1 in 4.4K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈757 ●
- Sources
- 164 ●
- 1 in 18K ◐
across 8 countries
79K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #76 | 176,302 | 74K rec. | — | listed | Hoai | 164 |
| US United States | — | 555 | 4.2K rec. | 1 in 599K | 555 | Hoai | 91 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 197 | 135 rec. | — | — | Hoai | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 177 | 196 rec. | — | — | Hoai | 16 |
| CA Canada | — | 123 | 141 rec. | — | — | Hoai | 18 |
| SE Sweden | — | 116△ | 10 rec. | 1 in 88K | 116 | — | 6 |
| SG Singapore | — | 28 | 36 rec. | — | — | Hoai | 10 |
| RU Russia | — | 25 | 36 rec. | — | — | Hoai | 6 |
| NO Norway | — | 24 | 25 rec. | — | 38 | Hoai | 4 |
| FI Finland | — | 21△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 265K | 85 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 20 | 30 rec. | 1 in 864K | 20 | Hoai | 9 |
| IS Iceland | — | 19 | — | 1 in 18K | 19 | — | — |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Vietnamese181K89%
- English8.3K4%
- 3.9K2%
- Spanish1.1K1%
- French9741%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnamese | 180,633 | 89% |
| English | 8,269 | 4% |
| 3,880 | 2% | |
| Spanish | 1,056 | 1% |
| French | 974 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Hoai 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.
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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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2002 | 11 |
| 2003 | 10 |
| 2004 | 11 |
| 2005 | 12 |
| 2006 | 11 |
| 2007 | 11 |
| 2008 | 12 |
| 2009 | 10 |
| 2010 | 11 |
| 2011 | 13 |
| 2012 | 13 |
| 2013 | 13 |
| 2014 | 12 |
| 2015 | 12 |
| 2016 | 15 |
| 2017 | 16 |
| 2018 | 15 |
| 2019 | 17 |
| 2020 | 17 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 19 years between 2002–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Van Tien Dungb. 1917VNnot in their usual nameGeneral of the Vietnam People's Army (1917-2002)
- Thanh Hoàib. 1932VNVietnamese comedian
- Trịnh Bửu Hoàib. 1952VNpoet
- Bùi Thị Minh Hoàib. 1965VNVietnamese politician
- Hoài Sab. 1973VNVietnamese musician, record producer and pianist
- Đỗ Thị Hoàib. 1996VNbadminton player
- Nguyễn Thu Hoàib. 1998VNVietnamese volleyball player
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●
Attested in 22 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 555 | #13,184 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 367 | #13,184 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 116 | #7,712 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 85 | #5,989 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 72 | #6,261 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 38 | #14,000 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 32 | #15,337 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 21 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 20 | #14,754 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 19 | #2,398 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 17 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 17 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 67 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Hoai?
- We estimate roughly 757 people bear Hoai (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Hoai have the most bearers?
- Hoai is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled hoai.
- How common is Hoai compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Hoai is the 76th most common given name of 72,115 given names recorded there.
- Is Hoai a male or female name?
- Hoai is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Hoai” — the 76th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.