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All around the world, ไซอิ๋ว (Xie , Ziie , Sieow ) is quite a common gender-neutral first name. The first name ไซอิ๋ว is characteristic of Singapore, where it is quite a rare unisex name, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, where it is a rare girly name. Not in comparison with a country's population, this name is the most popular in China, Indonesia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Much more prevalently, ไซอิ๋ว is the last name as well as the forename.
ไซอิ๋ว is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Xie Xun , the character in wuxia fiction, The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber.