Xián
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Xián is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Galician-Portuguese Juião, from Latin iūliānus.
- ESSpain1 in 36K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 157K
- ISIceland1 in 175K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 54 (measured from records)
- 1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)
1,769 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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(measured from records)
- Old Galician-PortugueseJuião(measured from records)
- Latiniūliānus(measured from records)
From Old Galician-Portuguese Juião, from Latin iūliānus.
Sources 1
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Xián 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,769 | 1 in 188K | 942 | — | 54 |
| ES Spain | 1,403 | 1 in 36K | 1.4K | Xián | 43 |
| NL Netherlands | 110 | 1 in 157K | 76 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 45 | 1 in 227K | 45 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 35 | 1 in 6M | 35 | — | 16 |
| IS Iceland | 2 | 1 in 175K | 2 | — | — |
1,769 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Xián is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Galician, a male given name, equivalent to English Julian
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 咸
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(measured from records)
- Li Xianb. 653Tang Dynasty crown prince
- Hu Xianb. 1050Song dynasty person CBDB = 43396
- Xu Xianb. 1481Ming dynasty person CBDB = 129924
- Xiao Xianb. 1902CNChinese calligrapher (1902-1997)
- Ho Yinb. 1908PTnot in their usual namePortuguese politician
- Patrick Tse Yinb. 1936CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor (1936–2026)
- Priscilla Chanb. 1965CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong female pop singer
- Xian Zhangb. 1973CNChinese-American conductor
- Zhang Xianb. 1985CNChinese volleyball player
- Chen Xianb. 1997CNChinese Go player
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)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Xián mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Galician-Portuguese Juião, from Latin iūliānus. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Xián a male or female name?
- Xián is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What are other forms of the name Xián?
- In the etymology graph, Jools and Julek are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Xián have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Xián, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Xián most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Xián is densest in Spain — about 1 in 36 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Xián?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,769 people named Xián in 2020, about 1 in 188 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Xián?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/xi%C3%A1nThe 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 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, “Xián”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.