Hsieh
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 2. Chinese variant of Xie 2
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʃiˈɛ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hsieh is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Taiwan than in any other country.
- TWTaiwan≈1 in 121(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 26K
- ILIsrael≈1 in 11Kas Shay
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hsieh itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Taiwan (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 427 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 121 (inferred from the name graph)
≈200,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Taiwan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Shay in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 2 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)
2. Chinese variant of Xie 2.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hsieh 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TW Taiwan | #145 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 121 | — | Hsieh | 162 |
| CN China | — | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Hsieh | 52 |
| US United States | — | 9,212as Shay | 1 in 36K | 9.3K | Shay | 427 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 43K | 29 | Shay | 163 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 13 | Shay | 142 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Shay | 108 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 103 | Shay | 86 |
| AR Argentina | — | 107 | 1 in 425K | 107 | Hsieh | 25 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–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)
Hsieh 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.
variant of Xie
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In cdo, ch6) t'd luiV to be a lictor or crier ； a company of lictors; hat > 'liwang ^tHeng^ to cry loud enough to turn the heavens ！ to disgrace ； to insult : hae^ ^sieu (W, to sharae one by drawing the fore-finger over the cheek and crying out hae haV iTimg <jri6 meng' sjt>*m,to reproach one for being shameless ； haV haV ilHe o^a ^wong^ shame ！ shame ！ you big cry-baby ！
as a wordAn Alphabetic Dictionary of the Chinese Language in the Foochow Dialect
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)
- Patrick Tse Yinb. 1936CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor (1936–2026)
- You Xieb. 1958DEnot in their usual nameChinese-German politician and writer
- Renhōb. 1967JPnot in their usual nameJapanese politician (born 1967)
- Michael Tseb. 1967CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor and singer
- Xie Junb. 1970CNnot in their usual nameChinese chess player
- Tony Hsiehb. 1973USAmerican businessman (1973–2020)
- Nicholas Tseb. 1980CAnot in their usual nameHong Kong singer, actor, songwriter and chef (born 1980)
- Fiona Xieb. 1982SGnot in their usual nameSingaporean actress
- Hsieh Su-weib. 1986TWTaiwanese female tennis player
- Sean Tseb. 1992GBnot in their usual nameHong Kong football player (born 1992)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7K | #4,885 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.4K | #5,453 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.5K | #5,774 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 107 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Hsieh mean, and where does it come from?
- 2. Chinese variant of Xie 2. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hsieh?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃiˈɛ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hsieh have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 196 thousand people named Hsieh in Taiwan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hsieh.
- How common is the name Hsieh?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 107 people named Hsieh, about 1 in 425 thousand residents.
- How common is Hsieh compared with other names?
- In Taiwan, Hsieh is the 145th most common surname of 18,531 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hsieh?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hsiehThe 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, “Hsieh” — the 145th most common surname in Taiwan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.