Pui
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pui is a given name, most frequently recorded in Malaysia. It appears chiefly in English and Chinese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a Chinese Indonesian surname from Cantonese.
- HKHong Kong1 in 2.1K◐
- MYMalaysia1 in 9.9K
- AUAustralia1 in 27K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.2K ●
- Sources
- 131 ●
- 1 in 86K ◐
across 7 countries
29K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Meaning & origin●
a Chinese Indonesian surname from Cantonese.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #756 | 6,593 | 7K rec. | — | — | Pui | 55 |
| AU Australia | — | 4,372 | 4.6K rec. | — | 1 | Pui | 92 |
| HK Hong Kong | #113 | 1,737 | 800 rec. | — | — | Pui | 68 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 995 | 956 rec. | — | 3 | Pui | 62 |
| US United States | — | 941 | 13K rec. | 1 in 353K | 941 | Pui | 131 |
| CA Canada | — | 569 | 622 rec. | — | 5 | Pui | 54 |
| SG Singapore | — | 349 | 381 rec. | — | — | Pui | 45 |
| DE Germany | — | 319 | 354 rec. | — | — | Pui | 38 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 201 | 311 rec. | 1 in 86K | 201 | Pui | 10 |
| CN China | — | 117 | 82 rec. | — | — | Pui | 29 |
| SE Sweden | — | 64△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 159K | 64 | — | 5 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | 45 | 53 rec. | — | — | Pui | 19 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English26K34%
- Chinese25K32%
- Malay12K16%
- Indonesian1.8K2%
- 1.6K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 26,496 | 34% |
| Chinese | 24,805 | 32% |
| Malay | 12,345 | 16% |
| Indonesian | 1,778 | 2% |
| 1,578 | 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●
Pui 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.
In fro, well (structure from which water can be drawn)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, facade, front of a building
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In lmo, chicken
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tou, joyful
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zsa, water
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 32 |
| 2000 | 33 |
| 2001 | 33 |
| 2002 | 32 |
| 2003 | 32 |
| 2004 | 31 |
| 2005 | 30 |
| 2006 | 31 |
| 2007 | 29 |
| 2008 | 27 |
| 2009 | 30 |
| 2010 | 29 |
| 2011 | 27 |
| 2012 | 25 |
| 2013 | 27 |
| 2014 | 27 |
| 2015 | 27 |
| 2016 | 26 |
| 2017 | 25 |
| 2018 | 28 |
| 2019 | 26 |
| 2020 | 25 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Pei Xiub. 224CNnot in their usual nameChinese cartographer and geographer (224-271)
- Pei Weib. 267CNnot in their usual namejin dynasty minister and Xuanxue thinker
- Pei Songzhib. 372CNnot in their usual nameChinese historian and politician (372–451)
- Pei Xingjianb. 619CNnot in their usual nameTang dynasty person CBDB = 31906
- Bui Thi Xuanb. 1752VNnot in their usual name18th century Vietnamese female general during the Tây Sơn Rebellion
- Pei Wenzhongb. 1904CNnot in their usual nameChinese paleontologist and paleoanthropologist (1904–1982)
- Bui Tinb. 1927VNnot in their usual nameVietnamese soldier, political dissident and defector (1927–2018)
- Pei Encaib. 1953CNnot in their usual nameChinese footballer
- Carl Peib. 1989SEnot in their usual nameSwedish entrepreneur
- Bùi Tiến Dũngb. 1997VNnot in their usual nameVietnam footballer
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 29 sources across 16 countries.
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 · 72 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Pui?
- We estimate roughly 1.2 thousand people bear Pui (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Pui have the most bearers?
- Pui is most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is most often spelled pui.
- How common is Pui compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Pui is the 756th most common given name of 325,158 given names recorded there.
- Is Pui a male or female name?
- Pui is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Pui mean?
- Recorded meaning: a Chinese Indonesian surname from Cantonese.
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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, “Pui” — the 756th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.