# Chui

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For other uses, see [Chui (disambiguation)](/source/Chui_(disambiguation)).

**Chui** is a [surname](/source/Surname).

## Origins

Chui is a spelling of the [Cantonese](/source/Cantonese) pronunciation of two [Chinese surnames](/source/Chinese_surname), listed below by their [Pinyin](/source/Pinyin) transcription (which reflects the [Mandarin](/source/Mandarin_Chinese) pronunciation):[1][2]

- [Cuī](/source/Cui_(surname)) (崔), which originated as a [toponymic surname](/source/Toponymic_surname) from a fief by that name in the [state of Qi](/source/Qi_(state)); a grandson of [Jiang Ziya](/source/Jiang_Ziya) renounced his claim to the throne and went to live in that fief, and his descendants took its name as their surname.[3] (Cantonese pronunciation – )
- [Xú](/source/Xu_(surname_%E5%BE%90)) (徐), which originated as a [toponymic surname](/source/Toponymic_surname) from the ancient [state of Xu](/source/Xu_(state)), adopted by the descendants of [Boyi](/source/Yi_(husbandman)) after the state was annexed by the [state of Chu](/source/Chu_(state)).[4] (Cantonese pronunciation – ).

## Statistics

According to statistics cited by [Patrick Hanks](/source/Patrick_Hanks), there were 267 people on the island of [Great Britain](/source/Great_Britain) and 12 on the island of [Ireland](/source/Ireland) with the surname Chui as of 2011. There had been one person with that surname in Great Britain in 1881.[2]

The [2010 United States census](/source/2010_United_States_census) found 1,420 people with the surname Chui, making it the 19,138th-most-common name in the country. This represented an increase from 1,303 (19,248th-most-common) in the [2000 Census](/source/2000_United_States_census). In both censuses, more than nine-tenths of the bearers of the surname identified as [Asian](/source/Asian_Americans), and roughly two percent as [White](/source/White_Americans).[5]

## People

### Surname 崔

- [Chui Sai Cheong](/source/Chui_Sai_Cheong) (崔世昌; born 1954), Macau politician, older brother of Fernando Chui
- [Fernando Chui](/source/Fernando_Chui) (崔世安; born 1957), second chief executive of Macau
- [Anita Chui](/source/Anita_Chui) (崔碧珈; born 1988), Hong Kong actress
- [Vincent Chui](/source/Vincent_Chui) (崔允信), Hong Kong film director

### Surname 徐

- [Chui A-poo](/source/Chui_A-poo) (徐亞保; died 1851), Chinese pirate
- [Norman Chui](/source/Norman_Chui) (徐少強; born 1950), Hong Kong actor
- [Alan Chui Chung-San](/source/Alan_Chui_Chung-San) (徐忠信; 1952–2022), Hong Kong actor
- [Chui Chi-kin](/source/Chui_Chi-kin) (徐子見; born 1967), Hong Kong politician
- [Chui Tien-you](/source/Chui_Tien-you) (徐天佑; born 1983), Hong Kong actor

### Other or unknown

- [Nelson Oswaldo Chui Mejía](/source/Nelson_Oswaldo_Chui_Mej%C3%ADa) (born 1947), Peruvian politician
- [Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui](/source/Mathieu_Ngudjolo_Chui) (born 1970), Congolese army colonel

## See also

- [Hui (surname)](/source/Hui_(surname)), the Cantonese spelling of another surname transcribed as Xǔ in Pinyin (許)

## References

1. Hanks, Patrick (ed.) (2003). [*Dictionary of American Family Names*](https://books.google.com/books?id=FJoDDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA334). Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. p. 334. ISBN 9780199771691.

1. Hanks, Patrick (ed.) (2016). [*The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland*](https://books.google.com/books?id=0AyDDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA506). Oxford University Press. p. 506. ISBN 9780192527479.

1. Chao, Sheau-yueh J. (2000). [*Genealogical Research on Chinese Surnames*](https://books.google.com/books?id=t26Iv0Octa0C&pg=PA182). Genealogical Publishing Company. p. 182. ISBN 9780806349466.

1. Chao 2000, p. [77](https://books.google.com/books?id=t26Iv0Octa0C&pg=PA77)

1. ["How common is your last name?"](https://projects.newsday.com/databases/long-island/census-last-names/?where=name^Chui&offset=0). *Newsday*. Retrieved 5 September 2018.

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