Chuen
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Chuen is a given name, most frequently recorded in Malaysia. In Hong Kong it is the 22nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Chinese, written in the Latin script.
- HKHong Kong1 in 475◐
- MYMalaysia1 in 3.4K
- SGSingapore1 in 6.6K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.9K ●
- Sources
- 366 ●
- 1 in 40K ◐
across 9 countries
276K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Chun in US United States, MY Malaysia, AU Australia and 11 more and Chuñ in PE Peru.
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #224 | 18,955 | 20K rec. | — | — | Chun | 93 |
| AU Australia | #745 | 15,402 | 18K rec. | — | 1 | Chun | 130 |
| HK Hong Kong | #22 | 7,825 | 5.8K rec. | — | — | Chun | 85 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 5,498 | 7.8K rec. | — | 3 | Chun | 92 |
| US United States | — | 3,412 | 203K rec. | 1 in 97K | 13K | Chun | 366 |
| CA Canada | — | 3,015 | 5.6K rec. | — | 1 | Chun | 115 |
| SG Singapore | #347 | 1,637 | 2.2K rec. | — | — | Chun | 81 |
| CN China | — | 1,322 | 843 rec. | — | — | Chun | 68 |
| DE Germany | — | 1,169 | 1.7K rec. | — | — | Chun | 72 |
| TW Taiwan | — | 510 | 108 rec. | — | — | Chuen | 45 |
| JM Jamaica | #223 | 388 | 665 rec. | — | — | Chun | 3 |
| SE Sweden | — | 255△ | 49 rec. | 1 in 40K | 255 | — | 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●
- English14K47%
- Chinese7.6K26%
- Malay2.9K10%
- Spanish8803%
- 5832%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 13,734 | 47% |
| Chinese | 7,564 | 26% |
| Malay | 2,881 | 10% |
| Spanish | 880 | 3% |
| 583 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Chuen is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In enm, alternative form of chewen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In chk, still
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name●
- Li Cunb. 817not in their usual nameTang dynasty person CBDB = 143431
- Li Cunb. 1281not in their usual nameYuan dynasty scholar, 1281-1354
- Ji Cunnot in their usual nameperson, CBDB ID = 418336
- Lin Cunnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 364129
- Li Cunnot in their usual nameSong dynasty person CBDB = 20987
- Li Cunnot in their usual nameTang dynasty person CBDB = 166941
- Li Cunnot in their usual nameTang dynasty person CBDB = 175113
- Li Cunnot in their usual nameTang dynasty person CBDB = 191556
- Li Cunnot in their usual nameperson, CBDB ID = 406900
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 13 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 222 | #26,490 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 129 | #26,490 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 112 | #137,816 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 102 | #158,432 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 10 | #17,921 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 4 | #9,073 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 1992 | 3 | #544 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 2 | #35,467 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1 | #18,015 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2023 | 1 | #9,279 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 1992 | 1 | #636 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 1989 | 1 | #577 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 14 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Chuen?
- We estimate roughly 3.9 thousand people bear Chuen (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Chuen have the most bearers?
- Chuen is most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is most often spelled chun.
- How common is Chuen compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Chuen is the 224th most common given name of 325,158 given names recorded there.
- Is Chuen a male or female name?
- Chuen 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
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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, “Chuen” — the 224th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.