The percent of Boba Tea drinkers in Cupertino with Chinese names goes up in the year to May 2025
The percent of Boba Tea drinkers in Cupertino with Chinese names goes up in the year to May 2025
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At a Boba Tea place in May 2024, approx 25% of the customers were using Chinese language origin names. Will that rate go up over time to the next year?

Details:

At TPTea on the southern border of Cupertino, on S Blaney Ave, I took a picture of the delivery list at 3pm, Saturday May 18 2024 and analyzed the linguistic origin of the names. I will return there on a Saturday in 2025 at the same time and repeat the same analysis, at around the same time of day. If the percentage of people with Chinese Language origin names goes up, then YES.

TP Tea: https://maps.app.goo.gl/YNBTzKpPKMBYZBin9

Summary: 50 Total names

Clearly Chinese Origin - 11

  • Lin

  • Yu

  • Yan

  • Yan

  • Po-Han

  • Yean

  • Waylin

  • Tao

  • Qi

  • Wei

  • Yu

Clearly "Traditional English" or other - 36

  • Lynn

  • Ann

  • Angie

  • Vanessa

  • Tori

  • Beatric-

  • Sarah

  • Elaine

  • Meg

  • Nico

  • Ernie

  • Kevin

  • Emerson

  • Julia

  • Jenny

  • Drew

  • Roxy

  • Nicholas

  • Kathari-

  • Arella

  • Hayley

  • Nate

  • Ellen

  • Ray

  • Anni

  • Deny

  • Andrew

  • Stephany

  • Nicole

  • Eva

  • Robin

  • Justin

  • Aiden

  • Sarahss

  • Jasica

  • Lily

Other linguistic origin - 3

  • miyahara

  • Vivek

  • H

So at this time, the percentage was 23% (11/47)

Details and Rationale

By observation, ~80% of the customers appear to be Asian. I'm creating the question out of curiosity on whether the trend to adopt English language names will continue, or whether a kind return to traditional Chinese language origin names will become more prevalent.

Will there be a push towards more directly using names which just by their origin identify someone as Chinese, or not, in this location?

I realize a year is a short time to observe a change, and this is very game-able in lots of ways. Still, it's something to look at and I'm not making strong claims.

Here is a video about Kira Kira Names in Japan, another interesting naming phenomenon

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