Wei

Wei is the 2,425th most common surname in the United States, shared by 14,591 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 20,500.

By the numbers

People: 14,591
Rank: 2,425th
How common: 1 in 20,500
Per 100,000: 4.9

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 94.8%
White, not Hispanic 2.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
Hispanic or Latino 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.03%

Notable people called Wei

Wang Wei (699–761)Chinese poet, musician, painter, and statesman
Zhao Wei (born 1976)Chinese actress, singer and filmmaker
Tang Wei (born 1979)Chinese actress
Lee Chong Wei (born 1982)Malaysian badminton player
Wei Jingsheng (born 1950)Chinese democracy activist and dissident
Wei Yi (born 1999)Chinese chess player
Pang Wei (born 1986)Chinese sport shooter
Yang Wei (born 1980)Chinese artistic gymnast

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

Surnames like Wei

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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.