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    The surname Choe

    A Korean surname, carried by 7,776 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex C000

    Choe: #4,560 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Choe #4,560, 7,776 people Choe: #4,560 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Choe #4,560, 7,776 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Choe is more common than 97.2% of them.

    Origin

    Korean origin

    Variant of Choi.

    One of 42 Korean surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 7,776 people named Choe in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 39,705 Americans. That is up 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,926.

    #4,560
    rank among US surnames
    7,776
    people in 2010
    2.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +12.3%
    change since 2000 (was #4,682)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #4,553Vargo7,78739,649
    #4,554Kremer7,78439,664
    #4,555Basile7,78339,669
    #4,556Yeung7,78239,674
    #4,557Lilley7,78039,685
    #4,558Poling7,77939,690
    #4,559Talavera7,77739,700

    Who is named Choe

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    94% of people named Choe identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 2.3% as two or more races and 2.1% as white (not Hispanic).

    • Asian and Pacific Islander 94%
    • Two or more races 2.3%
    • White (not Hispanic) 2.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%

    Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Choe

    Choe has the Soundex code C000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C000.

    Other Korean surnames

    All 42 Korean surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Choe come from?
    Variant of Choi.
    How common is the surname Choe?
    7,776 people in the United States had the surname Choe in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 39,705 Americans. It ranked 4,560th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Choe?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Choe identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 2.3% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Choe getting more or less common?
    More common. 6,926 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,776 in 2010, up 12%.