Xiāo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Hanyu Pinyin reading of 刿
Xiāo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CNChina≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 3K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 3.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 311 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Xiao in US United States, CN China, MY Malaysia and 4 more.
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)
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 刿
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Xiāo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈1,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Xiao | 183 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Xiao | 60 |
| US United States | — | 7,066 | 1 in 47K | 10K | Xiao | 311 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Xiao | 81 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | 54 | Xiao | 41 |
| SG Singapore | #355 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Xiao | 78 |
| HK Hong Kong | #277 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Xiao | 68 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Xiao Zhangmaob. 458Liu Song Dynasty crown prince
- Anna Suib. 1964USnot in their usual nameAmerican fashion designer (born 1964)
- Hsiao Bi-khimb. 1971TWnot in their usual nameVice President of Taiwan since 2024
- Edwin Siub. 1977CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor and singer
- Elva Hsiaob. 1979TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese singer (born 1979)
- Jona Xiaob. 1989CNChinese actress
- Xiao Zhanb. 1991CNChinese actor and singer
- Xiao Ruotengb. 1996CNChinese artistic gymnast (1996-)
- Xiao Jiaruixuanb. 2002CNChinese sport shooter
- Rita HsiaoUSnot in their usual nameAmerican screenwriter
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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Xiāo mean, and where does it come from?
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 刿 Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Xiāo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 million people named Xiāo in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled xiao.
- How common is the name Xiāo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,066 people named Xiāo in 2020, about 1 in 47 thousand residents.
- How common is Xiāo compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Xiāo is the 277th most common given name of 23,276 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/xi%C4%81oThe 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, “Xiāo” — the 277th most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.