Xin — unisex name
210 babies named Xin in U.S. Social Security records since 1999, with the highest year being 2005. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
68% of everyone ever named Xin was born in this single decade.
20 babies were named Xin in 2005 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Xin
The Social Security Administration has registered 210 babies named Xin between 1999 and 2023, spanning 25 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Xin currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 20 babies received it in a single year. Xin is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 31 additional births since 2002.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Xin performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 143 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Xin shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 95 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Xin in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Xin 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 210 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.
Xin at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Xin popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1999
- Peak year (2005)
- 20
- Annual births at peak — across 25 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
210 total births across 25 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2005 with 20 births in a single year.
Xin popularity over time — boys
31 total births recorded since 2002 (Xin as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Xin accounts for 13% of total recorded use across both genders.
Xin by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 143 births that decade — 68% of Xin's all-time total
Xin decade highlights
- Peak decade 143 births
- Runner-up 48 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Xin's strongest decade
143 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 68% of all-time use.
Xin by state
Where Xin concentrates geographically — total births since 1999
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 95 | 45.2% |
95 of 210 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 45.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 45.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1999–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.