Hui

Hui is the 5,551st most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,051 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 49,400.

By the numbers

People: 6,051
Rank: 5,551st
How common: 1 in 49,400
Per 100,000: 2.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Chinese

Borrowed from cmn ^惠, ^回, or yue.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 92.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
White, not Hispanic 2.8%
Hispanic or Latino 1.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.03%

Notable people called Hui

Liu Hui (225–295)Chinese mathematician from Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms period)
Ann Hui (born 1947)Hong Kong film director, producer, screenwriter, and actress
Yan Hui (520 BC–480 BC)Chinese philosopher (c. 521–481 BC)
Yang Hui (1238–1298)Chinese mathematician
Liao Hui (born 1987)weightlifter
Zhong Hui (225–264)Cao Wei calligrapher, essayist and general
Samuel Hui (born 1948)Hong Kong musician and actor
Hui Ruoqi (born 1991)female Chinese volleyball player

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

Surnames like Hui

Huizar
Huie

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.