Cuī
surname · Latin script
Cuī is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 崔 (cuī). Doublet of Chui.
- RURussia≈1 in 669Kas Цуй(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 38K
- NONorway1 in 61K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Cuī itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 81 (measured from records)
- 1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)
3,520 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Cui in US United States, CN China and Цуй in RU Russia.
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(measured from records)
Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 崔 (cuī). Doublet of Chui.
Sources 3
- Welsh Surnames
- Wiktionary
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cuī 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.
3,520 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
- Cui Yuanb. 772nd century Chinese writer and politician
- Cui Shub. 1740CNQing dynasty person CBDB = 65846
- Daniel C. Tsuib. 1939USnot in their usual nameChinese-American physicist, Nobel laureate
- Cui Tiankaib. 1952CNChinese diplomat
- Fernando Chuib. 1957CNnot in their usual nameChief Executive of Macau (2009-2019)
- Adam Tsueib. 1959TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese entrepreneur, producer, film director and music executive
- Cui Jianb. 1961CNChinese rock musician of Korean descent
- Cui Yongyuanb. 1963CNformer Chinese television presenter
- Sam Chuib. 1980AUnot in their usual nameChinese-Australian aviation and travel blogger, photographer and author
- Cui Xiaotongb. 1994CNChinese rower
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cuī mean, and where does it come from?
- Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 崔 (cuī). Doublet of Chui. Recorded by Welsh Surnames and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Cuī have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.5 thousand people named Cuī, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cui.
- Where is Cuī most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cuī is densest in Finland — about 1 in 38 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cuī?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,520 people named Cuī in 2010, about 1 in 95 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cu%C4%ABThe 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, “Cuī”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.