Xiàng

surname · Latin script

Xiàng is a surname written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 湘 (Xiāng).

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 湘 (Xiāng).

Sources 4

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Wiktionary
  • Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
  • Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

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Notable people with this name(measured from records)

0500100015002000Xiang Yu, b. 232Xiang Yuanbian, b. 1525Xiang Ying, b. 1895Wu-Chung Hsiang, b. 1935Xiang Huaicheng, b. 1939Thomas Hsiang, b. 1948Jing Xiang, b. 1993Chloe Xiang, b. 1999

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(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Xiàng 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 Xiàng mean, and where does it come from?
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 湘 (Xiāng). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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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, “Xiàng”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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