Bui

At the 2020 census, 35,375 Americans bore the surname Bui — 974th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 8,449.

By the numbers

People: 35,375
Rank: 974th
How common: 1 in 8,449
Per 100,000: 11.8

Where the name comes from

Borrowed from Vietnamese Bùi.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Bui described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 95.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.1%
White, not Hispanic 1.6%
Hispanic or Latino 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.01%

Notable people called Bui

Bui Tuong Phong (1942–1975)Computer graphics researcher and pioneer
Kim Bui (born 1989)German gymnast

People named Bui with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Bui

Buie

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.