As a
Chinese surname, Wee is an English-language spelling of the pronunciations in different
varieties of Chinese of multiple surnames. Those surnames are listed below by their romanisation in
Hanyu Pinyin, which reflects the
standard Mandarin pronunciation:
Huáng (simplified Chinese: 黄; traditional Chinese: 黃), spelled Wee based on the
vernacular reading of
Zhangzhou dialectHokkien pronunciation (
Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ûiⁿ). Other English spellings of the Hokkien pronunciation of this surname include
Oei, Ooi, and
Uy.[1] The spelling Wee is common particularly in
Melaka; in contrast, the spelling Ooi is more common in
Penang.[2][3]
Statistics compiled by
Patrick Hanks on the basis of the
2011 United Kingdom census and the
Census of Ireland 2011 found 150 people on the island of
Great Britain and eight on the island of
Ireland with the surname Wee. In the
1881 United Kingdom census there were three bearers of the surname.[4] The
2010 United States census found 1,353 people with the surname Wee, making it the 19,865th-most-common surname in the country, representing a slight increase from the
2000 census (1,295 people; 19,355th-most-common). In the 2010 census, roughly 22% of the bearers of the surname identified as
non-Hispanic white (down from 29% in the 2000 census), while the number identifying as Asian increased from 62% in the 2000 census to 72% in the 2010 census..[5]
As of 2021, there were 130 people in Norway with the surname Wee.[6]
People
Adelene Wee (born 1965), Singaporean bowling champion
^"Names". Statistics Norway. 26 January 2022. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
Surname list
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