Hoda is from the Arabic hudā (هدى) — "right guidance, the straight path" — a Quranic term used in Surah Al-Baqarah and elsewhere. Survived breast cancer (2007).
Hoda does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hoda reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.