The CHOI surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	36,390	872	0.013	135
United States (1880 census)	13	83746	0	0
Change since 1880	+36377	+82874	+N/A	+N/A
Other Countries
Australia	1,144	1438	0.007	70
United Kingdom	625	7538	0.001	14

Top States for CHOI by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	13,278	203	0.039	392
New York	4,005	387	0.021	211
New Jersey	2,874	236	0.034	342
Virginia	2,036	399	0.029	288
Illinois	1,909	611	0.015	154
Top States for CHOI by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	13,278	203	0.039	392
New Jersey	2,874	236	0.034	342
Hawaii	349	211	0.029	288
Virginia	2,036	399	0.029	288
Washington	1,427	452	0.024	242

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CHOI live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CHOI represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CHOI in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CHOI by picking someone at random in California than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CHOI

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: China

Language of origin: Chinese

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CHOI surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CHOI in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	549	1.51
White (Caucasian)	546	1.5
White (Hispanic)	127	0.35
Black/African American	55	0.15
Asian/Pacific	35,102	96.46
Native American/Alaskan	11	0.03

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CHOI surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to CHOI

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHOI.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.