Xian is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Xion, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Xian: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 19 in 2025. Its best rank was #4,212 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #4,212 in 2023; #5,195 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Xian in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,195 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #4,212.
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Xian: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 19 boys in 2025. Peak: #4,212 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 26 (2023).
In 2025, 19 US boys were named Xian, making it the 5,195th most common boys’ name of the year, up 982 places from #6,177 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 15 boys named Xian in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #4,212, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 26. For comparison, it was #6,304 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Xian in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #10,094, reached in 1998. The most girls given the name in a single year was 9, in 2011. For comparison, it was #16,315 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Xian in 29 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1997 with 6 babies. In all, 463 US babies have been given the name, 19% of them girls and 81% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 183 babies named Xian.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 169 US boys were named Xian; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 26. In 2025 that was about 1 in 89,899 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Xion (1,069 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Xian in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 19 | #5,195 |
| 2024 | — | — | 15 | #6,177 |
| 2023 | — | — | 26 | #4,212 |
| 2022 | — | — | 13 | #6,801 |
| 2021 | — | — | 15 | #6,020 |
| 2020 | — | — | 19 | #5,030 |
| 2019 | — | — | 21 | #4,798 |
| 2018 | — | — | 21 | #4,730 |
| 2017 | — | — | 9 | #8,803 |
| 2016 | — | — | 11 | #7,576 |
| 2015 | 6 | #16,315 | 14 | #6,304 |
| 2014 | — | — | 12 | #7,032 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,431 | 17 | #5,390 |
| 2012 | 5 | #19,406 | 18 | #5,240 |
| 2011 | 9 | #12,109 | 10 | #8,050 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,875 | 17 | #5,468 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,640 | 11 | #7,672 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,762 | 8 | #9,839 |
| 2007 | — | — | 13 | #6,600 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,934 | 11 | #7,403 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,448 | — | — |
| 2004 | — | — | 7 | #9,905 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,705 | 10 | #7,225 |
| 2002 | — | — | 5 | #12,439 |
| 2001 | — | — | 12 | #6,000 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,967 | 16 | #4,781 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,868 | 8 | #7,855 |
| 1998 | 9 | #10,094 | 12 | #5,455 |
| 1997 | — | — | 6 | #9,230 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).