The surname Wee
A Chinese surname, carried by 1,353 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex W000
Origin
Chinese origin
Borrowed from Hokkien 黃／黄 (Ûiⁿ), etc.
One of 193 Chinese surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,353 people named Wee in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 228,193 Americans. That is up 4.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,295.
Who is named Wee
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
72% of people named Wee identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 22% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.5% as two or more races.
- Asian and Pacific Islander 72%
- White (not Hispanic) 22%
- Two or more races 3.5%
- Black (not Hispanic) 1.5%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.9%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.
Famous Wees
1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first
- Wee Kim Wee4th President of Singapore (1915–2005)
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Wee
Wee has the Soundex code W000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W000.
Other Chinese surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Wee come from?
- Borrowed from Hokkien 黃／黄 (Ûiⁿ), etc.
- How common is the surname Wee?
- 1,353 people in the United States had the surname Wee in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 228,193 Americans. It ranked 19,865th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Wee?
- In the 2010 Census, 72% of people named Wee identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 22% as white (not Hispanic).
- Who is the most famous person named Wee?
- Wee Kim Wee, 4th President of Singapore (1915–2005).
- Where is the surname Wee most common?
- Wikidata records people named Wee in Singapore.
- Is the surname Wee getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,295 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,353 in 2010, up 4.5%.