Xuan — unisex name

What the Data Says About Xuan

The Social Security Administration has registered 242 babies named Xuan between 1977 and 2019, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Xuan currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1981, when 15 babies received it in a single year. Xuan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 25 additional births since 1985.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Xuan performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 105 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Xuan shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 22 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Xuan in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Xuan 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 242 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.