Xiao — unisex name

What the Data Says About Xiao

The Social Security Administration has registered 65 babies named Xiao between 1984 and 2006, spanning 23 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Xiao currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2006. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 9 babies received it in a single year. Xiao is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 6 additional births since 1994.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Xiao performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 35 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Xiao shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 24 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Xiao in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Xiao 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 65 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.