Pooi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Obsolete form of poi (“food made from pounded roots”)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pooi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 5.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 68K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 109K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 67 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Obsolete form of poi (“food made from pounded roots”).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pooi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #689 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | Pooi | 67 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 109K | Pooi | 6 |
| CN China | — | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | Pooi | 7 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 68K | Pooi | 27 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 463K | Pooi | 31 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 370K | Pooi | 2 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 211K | Pooi | 6 |
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.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pooi mean, and where does it come from?
- Obsolete form of poi (“food made from pounded roots”). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Pooi a male or female name?
- Pooi 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 Pooi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.1 thousand people named Pooi in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pooi.
- How common is the name Pooi?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6,100 people in Malaysia have Pooi as their first given name, about 1 in 5.4 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Pooi compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Pooi is the 689th most common given name of 388,685 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Pooi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pooiThe 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, “Pooi” — the 689th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.