Dai
Dai is the 4,537th most common surname in the United States, shared by 7,595 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 39,400.
By the numbers
- People
- 7,595
- Rank
- 4,537th
- How common
- 1 in 39,400
- Per 100,000
- 2.5
Where the name comes from
From the cmn-pinyin romanization of the cmn pronunciation of Chinese 戴.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Dai described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
1 category is not listed because nobody with this surname reported that background.
Notable people called Dai
- Dai Zhen (1724–1777)Chinese scholar
- Dai Li (1897–1946)Chinese KMT general
- Dai Sijie (born 1954)Chinese–French author, screenwriter and film director
- Dai Xiaoxiang (born 1990)Chinese archer
- Dai Jin (1388–1462)Chinese artist
- Ma Dai (183–300)3rd century State of Shu Han general
- Zhang Dai (1597–1679)Chinese historian
- Dai Jun (born 1992)Chinese swimmer
People named Dai with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Dai
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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.