Sui / Sui
Sui is a Chinese surname. Its contemporary population is about 450,000, concentrated mainly in Shandong and also in the Northeast, Inner Mongolia, and Hebei, forming two major distribution areas centered on Shandong and the Northeast.
The origins of the Sui surname include descendants of the Ji-surname state of Sui and descendants of Sui Hui of the Qi surname. After the Sui dynasty was established, many people surnamed Sui changed the character from 随 to 隋, and later Sui lineages generally honored Sui Hui as their founding ancestor.
The surname Sui is recorded in Han-period historical sources through Sui Yu, who became governor of Wuyuan in the early Eastern Han.
The Sui surname's commandery seat was Qinghe in present-day Hebei, where a prominent lineage developed.
The Jiaodong Sui genealogy records that most Shandong Sui families migrated from Gushi in Henan at the end of the Song dynasty. One tradition speaks of three branches, with two moving to Yanzhou and Shewopo in Shandong.
Historical figures surnamed Sui include Sui Yu, governor of Wuyuan in the Eastern Han; Sui Shichang, a Yuan-dynasty Anyuan grand general; Sui Yun, a Ming-dynasty surveillance commissioner of Guangdong; and Sui Zhu, a registrar of Qixia County.
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