Xian — #6043 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Xian

The Social Security Administration has registered 356 babies named Xian between 1997 and 2024, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Xian currently holds the #6043 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 26 babies received it in a single year. Xian is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 87 additional births since 1998.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Xian performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 149 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Xian shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 12 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Xian in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Xian in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 356 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.