Given name & surname · also Chinese
Pui
Pui is a surname from Cantonese, ultimately from Hokkien. It is used in Romanian and Indonesian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Pui comes from Cantonese, and ultimately from Hokkien.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1975. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Pui through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 0 boys · 10 girls
- Most popular year
- 1975
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1976. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,199 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Pui’s family of names
In Romanian usage, Pui has a later derivative in Пуев. In Indonesian usage, Pui as a surname has an alternative spelling in POEI. In Indonesian usage, Pui as a surname has a related form in POEI.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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