Kuei
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/kei/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain
Kuei is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 273Kas Kui(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 785Kas Kui
- USUnited States1 in 1.4Mas Kui
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kuei itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 28 (measured from records)
- 1 in 273K (inferred from the name graph)
413 named Kui
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway, as Kui
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Kui in IN India.
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)Kuei 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 413as Kui | 1 in 3.2M | 413 | Kui | 1 |
| US United States | 240as Kui | 1 in 1.4M | 385 | Kuei | 10 |
| BR Brazil | 59as Kui | 1 in 3.6M | 59 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 22as Kui | 1 in 785K | 22 | — | 2 |
| NO Norway | 20as Kui | 1 in 273K | 20 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 3as Kui | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 2 |
413 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Kuei is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In cdo, ii cover ； to screcj, to hide, to shelter ； to ward off' ； to \Vu, Also read hv、ok、: the bare, arid peak of a niount- aiii : i"、nyu wok^ a livc- peakcd uioiintain in the Chieu-wei district in Sz'- chuou.
as a wordAn Alphabetic Dictionary of the Chinese Language in the Foochow Dialect
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.
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 130 | #134,631 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 104 | #156,044 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 23 | #177,962 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Kuei?
- In Spanish /kei/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Kuei a male or female name?
- Kuei is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Kuei have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 413 people named Kui, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kuei most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Kuei itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Norway's: the national register counts about 1 in 273 thousand people named Kui.
- How common is the name Kuei?
- In India, the national register counted 413 people named Kui, about 1 in 3.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Kuei?
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/kueiThe 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, “Kuei”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.