Xia

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.

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Xia is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• Chinese36%

  nonstandard spelling of xiā

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• English35%

  An ancient dynasty in China.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Xia, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Zia
• Roxana
• Xanthe
• Xena
• Xiomara
• Zoe
• Xander
• English

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Xia is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Xià

• German surname3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Germany, China, United States, Austria

  Also written Xiá

• Chinese given name31 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in China, United States, Sweden, Russia

  Languages: Chinese, Russian, Belarusian

  Also written Qiuping, Ся, Qiu-Ping, Hsia, Sya

65 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Xia is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• ‘Rosy clouds’. See MINGXIA.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In guw, to read

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In och, be great

  as a word·Schuessler, 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.

• Xia Guib. 1195CNChinese painter (1195–1224)
• Xia Naib. 1910CNChinese archaeologist (1910-1985)
• Xia Peisub. 1923CNChinese computer scientist (1923-2014)
• Xia Baolongb. 1952CNChinese politician
• Yuen Biaob. 1957CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor, stuntman and martial artist
• Faye Wongb. 1969CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong singer-songwriter and actress
• Xia Yub. 1976CNChinese actor
• Xia Xuanzeb. 1979CNChinese badminton player
• Kimi Hsiab. 1984TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese actress and television host
• James Hab. 1992CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong footballer

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).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

How do you pronounce Xia?

A machine transcription gives /sjɑː/ (IPA) for Chinese.

What does the name Xia mean?

In Chinese, nonstandard spelling of xiā

Where does the name Xia come from?

An ancient dynasty in China. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

In which country does Xia have the most bearers?

Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 million people named Xia in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled xia.

How common is the name Xia?

In the United States, the national register counted 3,693 people named Xia in 2010, about 1 in 90 thousand residents.

How common is Xia compared with other names?

In China, Xia is the 734th most common surname of 142,871 surnames recorded there.