Chui
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Acronym of character user interface
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkuɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chui is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 509(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 7K
- CACanada≈1 in 39K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 261 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 509 (inferred from the name graph)
≈53,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Acronym of character user interface.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Chui is read(measured from records)
Chui is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English49%
Acronym of character user interface.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Chinese15%
nonstandard spelling of chuī
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Chui in Spanish.
- Malay7.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Chui in Malay.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chui 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈53,000 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Chui | 35 |
| HK Hong Kong | #151 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 509 | — | Chui | 95 |
| MY Malaysia | #849 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Chui | 55 |
| US United States | — | 1,420 | 1 in 234K | 1.7K | Chui | 261 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Chui | 129 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Chui | 67 |
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. 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)
Chui is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In cdo, ^Chut. A coll. word : an inde- pciukMit demonstrative i)it>- lumn, this : 'chid 《t7""， i give tliis to him ； "7"" i'"' cA'ga' 、k(m ！， 'ti, how can this be told or explained ！ CHUK. CHUNG. CHtTNG. 115
as a wordAn Alphabetic Dictionary of the Chinese Language in the Foochow Dialect
In Vietnamese, to duck under; to move headlong; to pass through hunched over
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, contraction of je + contraction of suis: I'm.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swahili, leopard, Panthera pardus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Ann Huib. 1947CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong film director, producer, screenwriter, and actress (born 1947)
- Norman Chuib. 1950CNHong Kong actor (1950-2024)
- Tsui Harkb. 1951VNnot in their usual nameHong Kong film director, screenwriter and producer
- Hui Ka Yanb. 1958CNnot in their usual nameChinese entrepreneur (1958-)
- Xu Qinb. 1961CNnot in their usual nameSecretary of the Heilongjiang Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
- Raman Huib. 1963CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong film director
- Vivian Hsub. 1975TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese actress and singer
- Xu Yuhuab. 1976CNnot in their usual nameChinese chess player
- Barbie Hsub. 1976TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese actress, singer and television presenter (1976–2025)
- Tiffany Hsub. 1984TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese actress and model
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 34 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,084 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,138 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,248 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Chui mean, and where does it come from?
- Acronym of character user interface. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Chui?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkuɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Chui have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 53 thousand people named Chui in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chui.
- How common is the name Chui?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,420 people named Chui in 2010, about 1 in 234 thousand residents.
- How common is Chui compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Chui is the 151st most common surname of 8,142 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Chui?
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/chuiThe 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, “Chui” — the 151st most common surname in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.