Entry № 4376 · Chinese origin

Hua Hua — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HWAH /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Chinese
Meaning
"Flower, splendid"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Chinese)

A name that means "flower, splendid".

Hua (花) is the Chinese word for "flower." It can also mean "splendid" or "magnificent" (華), referring to ancient China itself.

Hua Mulan (花木蘭) is the legendary woman warrior who took her father's place in the army — the heroine of Disney's Mulan.

Flower. The Chinese word, the heroine Mulan.

The name in its native script.

花 · 華
Transliteration
Huā
Pronunciation
/ hwɑː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hua stands.

Hua 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.

Huas before her.

Real people
Hua Mulan
Legendary Chinese woman warrior.
In fiction
Mulan
Heroine of Disney's Mulan.
1998 film

Names connected to Hua.

The number behind Hua.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hua reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.