Shuai
given name · Latin script
Meaning: nonstandard spelling of shuāi
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃuaɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shuai is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 386K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 268K
- DKDenmark1 in 419K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 92 (measured from records)
- 1 in 268K (inferred from the name graph)
861 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
nonstandard spelling of shuāi
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shuai 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 861 | 1 in 386K | 667 | Shuai | 92 |
| ES Spain | 71 | 1 in 704K | 71 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 41 | 1 in 934K | 37 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 38 | 1 in 268K | 38 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 14 | 1 in 419K | 14 | — | — |
861 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Shuai 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 och, leader, officer
as a wordSchuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Zhao Shuaib. 1740Qing dynasty person CBDB = 84058
- Hao Shuaib. 1983CNChinese table tennis player
- Jiao Shuaib. 1984CNChinese Olympic volleyball player
- Peng Shuaib. 1986CNChinese female tennis player (1986-)
- Hu Shuaib. 1989CNChinese Go player
- Li Shuaib. 1995CNfootballer
- Ma Shuaib. 2005CNChinese Go player
- Huang ShuaiMing dynasty person CBDB = 324035
- Shuai ZhuCNphysicist at IHEP in Beijing, China
- Lu Shuaiperson, CBDB = 159867
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).
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)
Attested in 27 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 667 | #13,866 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 194 | #13,866 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 71 | #20,767 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 60 | #11,146 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 38 | #16,307 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 37 | #4,173 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 32 | #4,210 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 23 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 22 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 19 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 17 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 17 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- What does the name Shuai mean, and where does it come from?
- nonstandard spelling of shuāi Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Shuai?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃuaɪ/ (IPA) for Chinese.
- Is Shuai a male or female name?
- Shuai is a male 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 Shuai have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 861 people named Shuai, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shuai.
- Where is Shuai most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shuai is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 268 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Shuai?
- In the United States, the national register counted 861 people named Shuai in 2020, about 1 in 386 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Shuai?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shuaiThe 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, “Shuai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.