Xi'An
loc · Latin script
Xi'An is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Chinese 西安 (Xī'ān, “Western Peace”), without syllable-dividing mark (隔音符號／隔音符号 (géyīn fúhào)).
- CNChina≈1 in 2.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 36K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 110K
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)
- Record sources
- 198 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈660,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Chinese 西安 (Xī'ān, “Western Peace”), without syllable-dividing mark (隔音符號／隔音符号 (géyīn fúhào)).
Cited for this meaning 3
- Wiktionary
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Xi'An 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 | ≈660,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Xi'An | 115 |
| US United States | 1,769 | 1 in 188K | 942 | — | 198 |
| ES Spain | 1,403 | 1 in 36K | 1.4K | — | 27 |
| AU Australia | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 106K | 1 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 374K | listed | — | 43 |
| NL Netherlands | 110 | 1 in 157K | 76 | — | 17 |
| IS Iceland | 2 | 1 in 175K | 2 | — | — |
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); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)Xi'An is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, The provincial capital of Shaanxi, China; a subprovincial city in central China famed as the former capital of numerous Chinese dynasties, also known as Chang'an among other historical names.
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Xi'An mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Chinese 西安 (Xī'ān, “Western Peace”), without syllable-dividing mark (隔音符號／隔音符号 (géyīn fúhào)). Recorded by Wiktionary and Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2) and 1 other source.
- Which countries have the most people named Xi'An?
- Mondonomo estimates about 658 thousand people named Xi'An in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled xi'an. After it come United States, Spain, Australia and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Xi'An?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,769 people named Xi'An in 2020, about 1 in 188 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/xi'anThe 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, “Xi'An”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.