Cui
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Chinese: nonstandard spelling of cuī
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kəi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cui is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CNChina≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 15K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 25K
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
- 287 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
nonstandard spelling of cuī
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Cui is read(measured from records)
Cui is one spelling over 2 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.
- Chinese37%
nonstandard spelling of cuī
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English35%
A surname from Mandarin.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Cui 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 | #617 | ≈1,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Cui | 145 |
| US United States | — | 3,520 | 1 in 95K | 7K | Cui | 287 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Cui | 55 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Cui | 119 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Cui | 26 |
| HK Hong Kong | #468 | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Cui | 38 |
| SG Singapore | #887 | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Cui | 49 |
| NZ New Zealand | #502 | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Cui | 45 |
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)
Cui 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 lmo, plural of cul (“arse, bum”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, to whom? (interrogative); dative singular of quis
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, prepositional of che: whom; which
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, nail (metal fastener), pin
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)
- Cui Shub. 1740CNQing dynasty person CBDB = 65846
- César Cuib. 1835LTRussian composer and army officer
- Daniel C. Tsuib. 1939USnot in their usual nameChinese-American physicist, Nobel laureate
- Cui Tiankaib. 1952CNChinese diplomat
- Fernando Chuib. 1957CNnot in their usual nameChief Executive of Macau (2009-2019)
- Adam Tsueib. 1959TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese entrepreneur, producer, film director and music executive
- Cui Jianb. 1961CNChinese rock musician of Korean descent
- Cui Yongyuanb. 1963CNformer Chinese television presenter
- Sam Chuib. 1980AUnot in their usual nameChinese-Australian aviation and travel blogger, photographer and author
- Cui Xiaotongb. 1994CNChinese rower
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 38 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7K | #4,862 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.5K | #9,251 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.6K | #16,368 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- How do you pronounce Cui?
- A machine transcription gives /kəi/ (IPA) for Chinese.
- What does the name Cui mean, and where does it come from?
- nonstandard spelling of cuī Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Cui have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 million people named Cui in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cui.
- How common is the name Cui?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,520 people named Cui in 2010, about 1 in 95 thousand residents.
- How common is Cui compared with other names?
- In China, Cui is the 617th most common surname of 142,871 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cuiThe 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, “Cui” — the 617th most common surname in China. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.