Chui is a surname.

Chui
Language(s)Chinese
Origin
DerivationToponymic
Other names
Variant form(s)
  • : Cui, Tsui
  • : Xu, Hsu, Tsui

Origins

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Chui is a spelling of the Cantonese pronunciation of two Chinese surnames, listed below by their Pinyin transcription (which reflects the Mandarin pronunciation):[1][2]

Statistics

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According to statistics cited by Patrick Hanks, there were 267 people on the island of Great Britain and 12 on the island of Ireland with the surname Chui as of 2011. There had been one person with that surname in Great Britain in 1881.[2]

The 2010 United States Census found 1,420 people with the surname Chui, making it the 19,138th-most-common name in the country. This represented an increase from 1,303 (19,248th-most-common) in the 2000 Census. In both censuses, more than nine-tenths of the bearers of the surname identified as Asian, and roughly two percent as White.[5]

People

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Surname 崔

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  • Chui Sai Cheong (崔世昌; born 1954), Macau politician, older brother of Fernando Chui
  • Fernando Chui (崔世安; born 1957), second chief executive of Macau
  • Anita Chui (崔碧珈; born 1988), Hong Kong actress
  • Vincent Chui (崔允信), Hong Kong film director

Surname 徐

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Other or unknown

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See also

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  • Hui (surname), the Cantonese spelling of another surname transcribed as Xǔ in Pinyin ()

References

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  1. ^ Hanks, Patrick, ed. (2003). Dictionary of American Family Names. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. p. 334. ISBN 9780199771691.
  2. ^ a b Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter, eds. (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press. p. 506. ISBN 9780192527479.
  3. ^ Chao, Sheau-yueh J. (2000). Genealogical Research on Chinese Surnames. Genealogical Publishing Company. p. 182. ISBN 9780806349466.
  4. ^ Chao 2000, p. 77
  5. ^ "How common is your last name?". Newsday. Retrieved 5 September 2018.