Xī
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Xī is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ancient Greek ξεῖ (xeî), ξῖ (xî).
- USUnited States1 in 93K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 69K
- ISIceland1 in 175K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 217 (measured from records)
- 1 in 69K (inferred from the name graph)
3,581 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Xi in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Ancient Greek ξεῖ (xeî), ξῖ (xî).
Sources 3
- Wiktionary
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Xī counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
3,581 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Zhao Xib. 1041son of Chinese emperor Renzong
- Dong Xiwenb. 1914CNnot in their usual nameChinese painter
- Yi Seokb. 1941KRnot in their usual nameKorean prince
- Li Xib. 1956CNSecretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Chinese Communist Party
- Kong Heeb. 1964SGnot in their usual nameChurch pastor
- Joe Wongb. 1970USnot in their usual nameChinese American comedian
- Wan Qianb. 1982CNnot in their usual nameChinese actress and singer
- Zhang Xib. 1984CNChinese badminton player
- Wu Xib. 1989CNChinese footballer
- Ren Qianb. 2001CNnot in their usual nameChinese diver
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Xī mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ancient Greek ξεῖ (xeî), ξῖ (xî). Recorded by Wiktionary and Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2) and 1 other source.
- Is Xī a male or female name?
- Xī is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Xī have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.6 thousand people named Xī, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled xi.
- Where is Xī most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Xī is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 69 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Xī?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,581 people named Xī in 2020, about 1 in 93 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Xī?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/x%C4%ABThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Xī”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.