Хи

Name: Хи: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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patronymic · Cyrillic script

Meaning: hee (an expression of laughter)

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Хи is a name written in the Cyrillic script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common

RURussia≈1 in 1.5Mas Си(inferred from the name graph)
KZKazakhstan≈1 in 4.5M
SESweden1 in 25Kas Hee

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Хи itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: United States (measured from records)
: 2 (measured from records)
Record sources: 80 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 4.5M (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

СиCyrillic

HeeLatin

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Хі

Locally spelled Си in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and Hee in US United States, NL Netherlands.

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

hee (an expression of laughter)

Cited for this meaning 1

kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Хи 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.

Where Хи is recorded, by country
Country				Most common spelling	Sources
US United States	3,581as Xi	1 in 93K	2.1K	Hee	16
SE Sweden	416as Hee	1 in 25K	416	—	2
ES Spain	192as Xi	1 in 260K	192	—	2
NL Netherlands	102as Hee	1 in 169K	66	Hee	2
RU Russia	≈92 est.	≈1 in 1.5M	—	Си	80
DK Denmark	33as Si	1 in 178K	138	—	—
KZ Kazakhstan	≈4 est.	≈1 in 4.5M	5	Си	16
IS Iceland	2as Si	1 in 175K	2	—	—

3,581 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling xi. 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); 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).

Other names spelled this way

Хи is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Uzbek name2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan
Also written Хй
Bulgarian name27 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Uzbekistan
Also written Hi, Hï, Хй, Hī, Khí
Kazakh name5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Kazakhstan
Also written Хй, Khi, Khí
a separate name2 spellings in the group
Also written Khi

1 further group 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.

Other recorded senses

Хи is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

In Macedonian, chi (Greek letter)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In inh, trunk of a tree
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In eve, you (singular)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ce, water
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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

Sŏ Hŭib. 942KPnot in their usual nameKorean politician and diplomat (942 - 998)
Hwang Huib. 1363not in their usual nameprime minister of the Joseon dynasty (1363 - 1452 )
Wang Huib. 1632CNnot in their usual nameChinese painter (1632-1717)
Cho Hŭiryongb. 1789not in their usual namepainter (1789-1866)
Gojong of the Korean Empireb. 1852KRnot in their usual name26th king of Joseon, first emperor of the Korean Empire (1852–1919)
Hwang Heeb. 1967KRSouth Korean politician
Hee Ohb. 1969KRKorean mathematician
Choi Heeb. 1986KRSouth Korean television presenter
Ju Huib. 1989KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean handball player
Hui WuCNnot in their usual nameChinese materials chemist

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

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Хи under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Хи mean, and where does it come from?: hee (an expression of laughter) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Хи have the most bearers?: In the United States, the national register counted about 3.6 thousand people named Xi, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Хи?: In the United States, the national register counted 3,581 people named Xi in 2020, about 1 in 93 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%D1%85%D0%B8

The 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 2026-10-13 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, “Хи”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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