Hoàng
It carries the sense of "yellow" and comes from outside the Polish naming tradition. Barely present here: about 57 people alive hold it, so most Poles have never met one, and no children were given it last year.
Hoàng Pronunciation
Hoàng is pronounced KHOÀNK (/xɔànk/).
What Hoàng means
Where Hoàng comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Hoàng comes from Vietnamese. The name renders the Sino-Vietnamese word for yellow, written with the character 黃. The meaning is yellow. In Polish that is żółty.
Yellow held a special rank in the old Sino-Vietnamese court, where it was the color reserved for the emperor. Through that link the syllable brushed against a second sense, something close to "royal." That imperial reading came later. The color came first.
Hoàng also serves as a widespread Vietnamese family name, borne by soldiers, officials, and poets across the country's history. On a Polish class register the spelling stops the eye, the diacritics above the vowel unfamiliar to a teacher reading down the list. Ask what it means and the answer is short: yellow, żółty.
How many people are named Hoàng
1 in 464048 men in Poland is named Hoàng. 57 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4919 among male names.
Hoàng as a middle name
Hoàng is a first name for 57 men in Poland and a middle name for another 34, a 63/37 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1414th, between Giorgio (34) and Jesús (34).
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#1412 Gedeon34
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#1413 Giorgio34
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#1414 Hoàng34
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#1415 Jesús34
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#1416 János34