The Choe surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 7,776 people carried this name — #4,560 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 37,900 people counted. That is up 12% from 6,926 in 2000.

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Where the name comes from

The origin of the Choe surname

Variant of Choi.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Choe» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In Argentina’s national register

At least 91 people named Choe live in Argentina.

RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in City of Buenos Aires.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

City of Buenos Aires 91

RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.

In print

Choe in American newspapers,
1910–1911.

Newspaper page from The Detroit Times carrying the name Choe
The Detroit Times 1910-09-26
Newspaper page from The Detroit Times carrying the name Choe
The Detroit Times 1910-09-27
Newspaper page from The Richmond Palladium And Sun-telegram carrying the name Choe
The Richmond Palladium And Sun-telegram 1911-03-25

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 18,614 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Choe in Australian newspapers,
1860s–1960s.

221 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Choe. The most, 38, date from the 1900s.

Articles, by state

New South Wales 72
Victoria 56
Queensland 48
South Australia 18
Western Australia 17
Tasmania 8
ACT (Canberra) 2

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Choe.

In the public record

People named Choe,
in the records of the United States.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States14 records

14 records of the Choe name in the United States
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 7
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 3
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 1
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 1
  • Sacramento County historic burials 1
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Ho Y. Choe

    Born 1918. Enlisted 1945 at New York City; machine shop worker from Delaware County, Pennsylvania. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1962, buried at Long Island National Cemetery, New York.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Bronislawa Choe

    Arrived at New York in 1904 aboard the Main from Bremen, aged 18. From Folusz, Austria; bound for Philadelphia.

    U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)
  3. The receipt card sent under the U.S. Alien Registration Act of 1940
    Example: U.S. alien registration card, 1940s
    Alien registration Sing A. Choe

    Born 1858 in China. Registered as a foreign national in Seattle, Washington, under the Alien Registration Act of 1940.

    U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain)

Showing 3 of 14 records for Choe in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · Sacramento County, Historic Burials (CC BY 4.0) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain); Alien Registration Receipt Card, Form AR-3, photo by Bobjgalindo via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

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