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: Wee is also a Norwegian surname.
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).