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Xu: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #8,465 in 1988.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #8,465 in 1988; #13,822 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Xu in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#13,822 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1988, at #8,465.
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Xu: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 boys in 2025. Peak: #8,465 in 1988 · most boys in one year: 5 (2025).
In 2025, 5 US boys were named Xu, making it the 13,822nd most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #8,465, reached in 1988. The most boys given the name in a single year was 5, in 2025. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Xu in 2 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1988 with 5 babies. In all, 10 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 5 babies named Xu.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5 US boys were named Xu; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 5. In 2025 that was about 1 in 341,615 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
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).