as a Last Name
- 7,846
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Choe
Meaning & Origins
Korean (Ch'oe): there is only one Chinese character for the surname Ch'oe. Of the 326 Ch'oe clans listed in some sources, only 43 distinct clans can be documented. Ch'oe is the fourth most common surname in Korea. The common Romanization Choi represents a French transliteration of the surname, which is actually pronounced more like Ch'wae. The first Ch'oe, Sobŏldori, was one of the six elders of pre-Shilla Korea; he received his surname from the Shilla King Yuri Isagŭm in AD 32.
| 4,532nd in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 7,846
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Hawaii
- has the most people named Choe per capita
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