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    The surname Choy

    A Korean surname, carried by 5,254 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex C000

    Choy: #6,467 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Choy #6,467, 5,254 people Choy: #6,467 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Choy #6,467, 5,254 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Choy is more common than 96% 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 5,254 people named Choy in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 58,764 Americans. That is up 2.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,116.

    #6,467
    rank among US surnames
    5,254
    people in 2010
    1.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.7%
    change since 2000 (was #6,166)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #6,461Zito5,25758,730
    #6,463Bucci5,25658,742
    #6,465Tsosie5,25558,753
    #6,467Choy5,25458,764
    #6,468Vining5,25358,775
    #6,469Escoto5,24958,820

    Who is named Choy

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

    75% of people named Choy identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 9.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 8.2% as two or more races.

    • Asian and Pacific Islander 75%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 9.9%
    • Two or more races 8.2%
    • White (not Hispanic) 5.6%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.1%

    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 Choy

    Choy 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 Choy come from?
    Variant of Choi.
    How common is the surname Choy?
    5,254 people in the United States had the surname Choy in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 58,764 Americans. It ranked 6,467th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Choy?
    In the 2010 Census, 75% of people named Choy identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 9.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Choy getting more or less common?
    More common. 5,116 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,254 in 2010, up 2.7%.