Xiong
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nonstandard spelling of xiōng (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Xiong is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 37,499 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. In Antigua & Barbuda it is the 18th most common surname.
- AGAntigua & Barbuda≈1 in 510(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 8.9K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 11Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 368 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 505 (inferred from the name graph)
37,499 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Antigua & Barbuda, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)nonstandard spelling of xiōng
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Xiong is found
(measured from records)Xiong 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 37,499 | 1 in 8.9K | 45K | Xiong | 368 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Xiong | 33 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Xiong | 115 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 48K | 342 | — | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 50K | 113 | Xiong | 80 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Xiong | 53 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #18 | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 505 | — | Xiong | 2 |
37,499 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Xiong is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In och, to rush (as water)
as a wordSchuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
In och, become warm
as a wordSchuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Gu Longb. 1938TWnot in their usual nameHong Kong born Taiwanese writer (1938–1985)
- Hung Yan-yanb. 1962CNnot in their usual nameactor
- Xiong Nib. 1974CNChinese sport 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Xiong mean, and where does it come from?
- nonstandard spelling of xiōng Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Xiong?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 37 thousand people named Xiong, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled xiong. After it come Malaysia, Canada, France and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Xiong?
- In the United States, the national register counted 37,499 people named Xiong in 2010, about 1 in 8.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Xiong compared with other names?
- In Antigua & Barbuda, Xiong is the 18th most common surname of 30,187 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Xiong?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/xiongThe 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, “Xiong” — ranked 750th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.