Pronunciation | Léi (Mandarin) Lûi (Hokkien) |
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Language(s) | Chinese |
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Language(s) | Chinese |
Word/name | China |
Meaning | Thunder |
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Variant form(s) | Lei (Mandarin) Lui, Leoi, Lei, Loi (Cantonese) Louie, Loui, Lui, Lei (Taishanese) Looi, Lui (Hokkien, Teochew, Hakka, Hainanese, Fuzhounese) Lūi (Gan) |
Derivative(s) | No, Ro (Korean) Lôi (Vietnamese) |
Lei is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname 雷 (Léi). It is the 69th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem.[1]
Additionally, the very common Chinese surname Li (李) is pronounced Lei in Standard Cantonese, and is sometimes romanized as "Lei", particularly among the Macanese.
The surname is also romanized as LuiorLooi in Hokkien and Teochew; Lui, Looi, or LoiinCantonese; LouieorLouisinTaishanese; LūiinGan.
Sino-Xenic pronunciations include Lôi in Vietnamese; Roe (뢰) or Noe (뇌) in Korean; and RaiinJapanese.
雷 is the 79th-most-common surnameinmainland China but not included among the 100 most common surnamesonTaiwan.
In the United States, Lei is an uncommon surname, ranking 14,849th during the 1990 census and 6,583rd during the year 2000 census.[2] In order, "Roe", "Louis", "Noe", "Louie", and "Lui" were all more common than the pinyin name; Loi and Rai were quite uncommon; and Leoi was held by fewer than 100 US residents and left unlisted by the Census Bureau.[2]
InCanada, Lei and Lui were among the 200 most common peculiarly Chinese-Canadian surnames found in a 2010 study by Baiju Shah & al, which data-mined the Registered Persons DatabaseofCanadian health card recipients in the province of Ontario.[3] Rai was found, but among the most common surnames of the Indian-Canadian community.[3]
雷 is the Chinese character for "thunder".
InOld Chinese, its pronunciation has been reconstructed as *C.rˤuj; and in Middle Chinese, as Lwoj.[4]
101–200 Most Common Family Names in Mainland China (2013, Fuxi Culture Association)
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