Qi

4,474 people in the United States were counted with the surname Qi in the 2020 census, making it the 7,202nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 66,800.

By the numbers

People: 4,474
Rank: 7,202nd
How common: 1 in 66,800
Per 100,000: 1.5

Where the name comes from

From the cmn-pinyin romanization of the cmn 齊.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 95.7%
White, not Hispanic 2.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
Hispanic or Latino 0.4%

1 category is not listed because nobody with this surname reported that background.

Notable people called Qi

Shu Qi (born 1976)Taiwanese actress
Qi Baishi (1864–1957)Chinese painter
Qi Jiguang (1528–1588)Ming Dynasty general
Wu Qi (439 BC–380 BC)Chinese general (440–381 BC)
Cai Qi (born 1955)First Secretary of the Secretariat of the Chinese Communist Party
Duke Huan of Qi (800 BC–642 BC)ruler of Qi state; head of the Five Hegemons during the Chinese Spring Autumn period
An Qi (born 1981)Chinese footballer
Emperor Gao of Southern Qi (427–482)Southern Qi emperor

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

Surnames like Qi

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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.