Chooi
given name · Malay · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Chooi is a given name, most frequently recorded in Thailand. In Myanmar (Burma) it is the 35th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Malay and English, written in the Latin script.
- MMMyanmar (Burma)1 in 6.7K◐
- THThailand1 in 7.8K
- USUnited States1 in 66K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈5.3K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 95 ●
- 1 in 66K ◐
across 8 countries
recorded for this name
13K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
9 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Shwe in US United States, MM Myanmar (Burma), MY Malaysia and 5 more, Choi in NL Netherlands, HK Hong Kong, PH Philippines and 2 more, Soy in IN India, LA Laos and ชอย in KR South Korea.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | — | 9,623 | 6K rec. | — | #93,119 | จอย | 86 |
| US United States | — | 5,003 | 2.7K rec. | 1 in 66K | 53K | Shwe | 95 |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | #35 | 4,522 | 1.4K rec. | — | listed | Shwe | 81 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 780 | 369 rec. | — | — | Shwe | 17 |
| IN India | — | 517 | 342 rec. | — | 20K | Soy | 11 |
| SG Singapore | — | 474 | 703 rec. | — | — | Shwe | 30 |
| LA Laos | — | 246 | 30 rec. | — | — | Soy | 6 |
| BR Brazil | — | 240 | — | 1 in 882K | 636 | — | — |
| KR South Korea | — | 129 | 176 rec. | — | 19K | ชอย | 2 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | 127 | 154 rec. | — | — | Choi | 16 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 89 | 150 rec. | — | listed | Shwe | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 81 | 102 rec. | — | listed | Shwe | 18 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Malay10K55%
- English4.9K26%
- English (Singapore)8304%
- Indonesian6974%
- Korean3452%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Malay | 10,382 | 55% |
| English | 4,906 | 26% |
| English (Singapore) | 830 | 4% |
| Indonesian | 697 | 4% |
| Korean | 345 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Chooi Kah Mingb. 1991MYbadminton player
- Timothy Chooib. 1993CACanadian-American Violinist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #170,497 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 2 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Chooi?
- We estimate roughly 5.3 thousand people bear Chooi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Chooi have the most bearers?
- Chooi is most frequently recorded in Thailand, where it is most often spelled จอย.
- How common is Chooi compared with other names?
- In Myanmar (Burma), Chooi is the 35th most common given name of 9,034 given names recorded there.
- Is Chooi a male or female name?
- Chooi is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chooiThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Chooi” — the 35th most common given name in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-09-12.