Chua

At the 2020 census, 5,071 Americans bore the surname Chua — 6,449th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 58,900.

By the numbers

People: 5,071
Rank: 6,449th
How common: 1 in 58,900
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Hokkien

Ultimately from nan-hbl 蔡.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 89.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
White, not Hispanic 2.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.02%

Notable people called Chua

Tanya Chua (born 1975)Singaporean singer

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

Surnames like Chua

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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.