Kuei

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/kui/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Kuei is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • 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. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (measured from records)

413 named Kui

Sources
28 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 273K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway, as Kui

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KuiLatin(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.

Where Kuei is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India413as Kui1 in 3.2M413Kui1
US United States240as Kui1 in 1.4M385Kuei10
BR Brazil59as Kui1 in 3.6M59——
NL Netherlands22as Kui1 in 785K22—2
NO Norway20as Kui1 in 273K20——
CH Switzerland3as Kui1 in 2.8M3—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)

InformalHi Kuei,

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 13 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Kuei
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020130#134,631
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010104#156,044
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—23#177,962
US United Stateswru 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?
A machine transcription gives /kui/ (IPA) for English.
Is Kuei a male or female name?
Kuei is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
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.

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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 2026-10-10.

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