Xīng
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Xīng is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From crossing, using X as abbreviation for cross.
- USUnited States1 in 128K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 240K
- DKDenmark1 in 326K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 217 (measured from records)
- 1 in 128K (inferred from the name graph)
2,599 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Xing in US United States, NL Netherlands.
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)From crossing, using X as abbreviation for cross.
Cited for this meaning 3
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Wiktionary
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Xīng 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 | 2,599 | 1 in 128K | 2.6K | 217 | |
| ES Spain | 101 | 1 in 495K | 229 | — | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | 72 | 1 in 240K | 54 | 10 | |
| BR Brazil | 35 | 1 in 6M | 40 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 27 | 1 in 1.4M | 33 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 18 | 1 in 326K | 39 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 14 | 1 in 398K | 58 | — | 2 |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
2,599 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jin Xingb. 1967CNChinese ballerina, modern dancer, choreographer and actress
- Xu Xingb. 1969CNChinese paleontologist
- Wang Xingb. 1979CNChinese businessman
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 Xīng mean, and where does it come from?
- From crossing, using X as abbreviation for cross. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Is Xīng a male or female name?
- Xīng is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Xīng?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.6 thousand people named Xīng, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled xing. After it come Spain, Netherlands, Brazil and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Xīng most common?
- Xīng is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 128 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Xīng?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,599 people named Xīng in 2020, about 1 in 128 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Xīng?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/x%C4%ABngThe 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, “Xīng”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.