Wai-Yee
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Wai-Yee is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hong Kong than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 260Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.9M
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 3.1Mfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Hong Kong (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 57 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈480 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Waiyee in US United States, MY Malaysia, GB United Kingdom and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Wai-Yee 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HK Hong Kong | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Waiyee | 7 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 256K | 559 | Waiyee | 13 |
| US United States | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | — | Waiyee | 57 |
| SG Singapore | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 219K | — | Waiyee | 9 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | — | Waiyee | 26 |
| CL Chile | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Waiyee | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 6 | 1 in 2.9M | 6 | Waiyee | 4 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Waiyee | 2 |
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: data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Xie Shenb. 1414not in their usual namepolitician
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 6 | #30,678 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Wai-Yee a male or female name?
- Wai-Yee 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 Wai-Yee have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 484 people named Wai-Yee in Hong Kong, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled waiyee.
- How common is the name Wai-Yee?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 6 people named Wai-Yee, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Wai-Yee?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wai-yeeThe 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, “Wai-Yee”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.