Hui
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hui is a given name, most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is the 32nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Chinese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ‘Splendour’. _ Huian 2° ‘Kind peace’.
- MYMalaysia1 in 675◐
- SGSingapore1 in 808
- HKHong Kong1 in 1.3K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈8.2K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 300 ●
- 1 in 36K ◐
across 9 countries
recorded for this name
397K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled 희 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●
‘Splendour’. _ Huian 2° ‘Kind peace’. Huidai ° ‘Wise blacking’. Dai is a dark pigment, which was used by women in times past to paint their eyebrows.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #32 | 96,263 | 100K rec. | — | — | Hui | 104 |
| CN China | — | 19,369 | 6.7K rec. | — | — | Hui | 151 |
| AU Australia | #706 | 16,692 | 21K rec. | — | 3 | Hui | 142 |
| SG Singapore | #36 | 13,322 | 14K rec. | — | — | Hui | 128 |
| KR South Korea | — | 12,335 | 7.3K rec. | — | — | 희 | 117 |
| TW Taiwan | #860 | 11,247 | 7.5K rec. | — | — | Hui | 131 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 7,852 | 9K rec. | — | — | Hui | 107 |
| US United States | — | 7,138 | 195K rec. | 1 in 47K | 7.1K | Hui | 300 |
| CA Canada | — | 4,504 | 8.8K rec. | — | 1 | Hui | 137 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 4,087 | 5K rec. | — | — | Hui | 78 |
| HK Hong Kong | #61 | 2,970 | 10K rec. | — | — | Hui | 136 |
| DE Germany | — | 1,675 | 2.1K rec. | — | 1 | Hui | 79 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English150K33%
- Chinese140K31%
- Malay51K11%
- 29K6%
- Spanish15K3%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 150,388 | 33% |
| Chinese | 140,237 | 31% |
| Malay | 51,478 | 11% |
| 28,810 | 6% | |
| Spanish | 15,071 | 3% |
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●
Hui is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
2. Chinese M '■ the 18th king of the Zhou Dynasty is most commonly known to posterity by his posthumously given name, Hui Wang. His descendants adopted Hui as their surname.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A Māori social gathering or assembly.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Chinese, nonstandard spelling of huī
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In German, wend. 'uncle'; nickname forms Hui, Hoy
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1949 | 1 |
| 1953 | 1 |
| 1958 | 2 |
| 1961 | 1 |
| 1962 | 1 |
| 1963 | 4 |
| 1964 | 1 |
| 1966 | 3 |
| 1967 | 2 |
| 1968 | 4 |
| 1970 | 8 |
| 1971 | 7 |
| 1972 | 6 |
| 1973 | 8 |
| 1974 | 14 |
| 1975 | 7 |
| 1976 | 7 |
| 1977 | 4 |
| 1978 | 1 |
| 1979 | 2 |
| 1980 | 17 |
| 1981 | 28 |
| 1982 | 13 |
| 1983 | 25 |
| 1984 | 14 |
| 1985 | 16 |
| 1986 | 17 |
| 1987 | 20 |
| 1988 | 18 |
| 1989 | 12 |
| 1990 | 8 |
| 1991 | 4 |
| 1993 | 6 |
| 1994 | 3 |
| 1995 | 6 |
| 1996 | 4 |
| 1998 | 6 |
| 2000 | 2 |
| 2002 | 1 |
AR datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) — 39 years between 1949–2002. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Zhang Feib. 167CNnot in their usual nameChinese military general (died 221)
- Zhong Huib. 225CNCao Wei calligrapher, essayist and general (225-264)
- Yan Huib. 521Chinese philosopher (c. 521–481 BC)
- Yue Feib. 1103CNnot in their usual nameSong dynasty general, killed by royal decree from the Emperor Gaozong of Song (1103–1142)
- Wang Huib. 1632CNChinese painter (1632-1717)
- Gojong of the Korean Empireb. 1852KRnot in their usual name26th king of Joseon, first emperor of the Korean Empire (1852–1919)
- Zhou Enlaib. 1898CNnot in their usual name1st Premier of the People's Republic of China
- Priscilla Chanb. 1965CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong female pop singer
- Xie Huib. 1975CNChinese association football player and manager (1975-)
- Fan Huib. 1981CNChinese-born French Go player
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 63 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7.1K | #2,491 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.1K | #5,551 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.8K | #5,966 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.3K | #6,003 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 3.2K | #2,168 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.7K | #2,491 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 366 | #5,691 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 317 | #2,910 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 285 | #4,063 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 208 | #4,060 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 200 | #3,454 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 152 | #5,793 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 · 290 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Hui?
- We estimate roughly 8.2 thousand people bear Hui (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Hui have the most bearers?
- Hui is most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is most often spelled hui.
- How common is Hui compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Hui is the 32nd most common given name of 325,158 given names recorded there.
- Is Hui a male or female name?
- Hui 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.
- What does the name Hui mean?
- Recorded meaning: ‘Splendour’. _ Huian 2° ‘Kind peace’.
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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, “Hui” — the 32nd most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.