Chinese surnames

华

huá · Hua

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 28
Ancestral seat (junwang)
武陵
Wikidata
Q2499021

In other languages

  • German Hua
  • English Hua
  • Spanish Hua
  • French Hua
  • Japanese 華
  • Korean 화
  • Russian Хуа
  • Vietnamese Hoa
  • Traditional Chinese 華

Notable historical bearers

Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.

  • Hua Guofeng1921 – 2008

    2nd Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, 2nd Premier of the People's Republic of China (1921–2008)

  • Hua Tuo200 – 208

    Chinese physician (c. 140–208)

  • Phraya Manopakorn Nitithada1884 – 1948

    Prime Minister of Siam from 1932 to 1933

  • Hua Luogeng1910 – 1985

    Chinese mathematician (1910-1985)

  • Hua Xiong200 – 191

    Chinese military general (died 191)

  • Abing1893 – 1950

    Chinese musician (1893–1950)

  • Hua Yan1682 – 1756

    Chinese artist (1682-1756); CBDB ID = 74523

  • Hua Xin157 – 232

    Chinese Eastern Han politician (157-232)

Find printed genealogies

The Shanghai Library holds one of the largest collections of Chinese family genealogies (jiapu). Its genealogy platform lists each genealogy's title, ancestral place, founding ancestor, hall name and holding library. Search there by surname and your family's ancestral place.

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Sources: the Hundred Family Surnames (public domain) with ancestral seats from the chinese-poetry dataset (MIT); spellings and people from Wikidata (CC0).