Tsai

At the 2020 census, 12,211 Americans bore the surname Tsai — 2,876th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 24,500.

By the numbers

People: 12,211
Rank: 2,876th
How common: 1 in 24,500
Per 100,000: 4.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Mandarin Chinese

From cmn, cmn-wadegiles romanization: Tsʻai⁴.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 93.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
White, not Hispanic 2.6%
Hispanic or Latino 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.01%

Notable people called Tsai

Jolin Tsai (born 1980)Taiwanese singer, songwriter, and actress
Joseph Tsai (born 1964)businessman
Cheung Po Tsai (1783–1822)18th- and 19th-century Chinese naval officer and former pirate
Emilio Estevez Tsai (born 1998)Canadian soccer player
Lauren Tsai (born 1998)Chinese–American model and illustrator
Kevin Tsai (born 1962)Taiwanese television personality

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

Surnames like Tsai

Tsang
Tsao

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.