Pui
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a Chinese Indonesian surname from Cantonese
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pəi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pui is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 539(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 2K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 31K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 184 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 539 (inferred from the name graph)
≈73,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a Chinese Indonesian surname from Cantonese.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pui counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈73,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Pui | 26 |
| MY Malaysia | #711 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Pui | 60 |
| HK Hong Kong | #135 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 539 | — | Pui | 72 |
| US United States | — | 1,199 | 1 in 277K | 941 | Pui | 184 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 31K | 1 | Pui | 100 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Pui | 49 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Pui is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In fro, well (structure from which water can be drawn)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, facade, front of a building
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In lmo, chicken
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tou, joyful
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zsa, water
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pei Xiub. 224CNnot in their usual nameChinese cartographer and geographer (224-271)
- Pei Weib. 267CNnot in their usual namejin dynasty minister and Xuanxue thinker
- Pei Songzhib. 372CNnot in their usual nameChinese historian and politician (372–451)
- Pei Xingjianb. 619CNnot in their usual nameTang dynasty person CBDB = 31906
- Bui Thi Xuanb. 1752VNnot in their usual name18th century Vietnamese female general during the Tây Sơn Rebellion
- Pei Wenzhongb. 1904CNnot in their usual nameChinese paleontologist and paleoanthropologist (1904–1982)
- Bui Tinb. 1927VNnot in their usual nameVietnamese soldier, political dissident and defector (1927–2018)
- Pei Encaib. 1953CNnot in their usual nameChinese footballer
- Carl Peib. 1989SEnot in their usual nameSwedish entrepreneur
- Bùi Tiến Dũngb. 1997VNnot in their usual nameVietnam footballer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 941 | #10,910 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 258 | #10,910 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1976 | 5 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2012 | 1 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pui mean, and where does it come from?
- a Chinese Indonesian surname from Cantonese. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pui?
- A machine transcription gives /pəi/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Pui a male or female name?
- Pui is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Pui have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 73 thousand people named Pui in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pui.
- How common is the name Pui?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,199 people named Pui in 2020, about 1 in 277 thousand residents.
- How common is Pui compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Pui is the 135th most common given name of 23,276 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Pui?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/puiThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Pui” — the 135th most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.