Choi
52,885 people in the United States were counted with the surname Choi in the 2020 census, making it the 624th most common in the country. That is about one person in 5,652.
By the numbers
- People
- 52,885
- Rank
- 624th
- How common
- 1 in 5,652
- Per 100,000
- 17.7
Where the name comes from
Origin Chinese, from Cantonese
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Choi described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Choi
- Choi Kyu-hah (1919–2006)4th President of South Korea
- Choi Min-ho (born 1991)South Korean rapper, singer and actor
- Choi Min-sik (born 1962)South Korean actor
- Choi Mi-sun (born 1996)South Korean archer
- Choi Siwon (born 1986)South Korean singer, actor and model
- Choi Ji-woo (born 1975)South Korean actress, born 1975
- Choi Hong-hi (1918–2002)Korean army general and martial artist
- Choi Jin-sil (1968–2008)South Korean actress
People named Choi with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Choi
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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.