Xinyan

#17,152 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Xinyan has been given to 31 babies in the U.S. since 2011. In 2025 it ranked #17,152 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Xinyan, 2025

1 in 663,000

Xinyan over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Xinyan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#17,152
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Xinyan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Xinyan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Xinyans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Xinyan was born before 2015 — so the typical Xinyan is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
67.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
31
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Choose a decade

2010s — 67.7% of all recorded uses (21).

Is Xinyan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+244
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−841
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.83×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
83.3%
Peak was 2015 (6)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#16,311
2015

Spellings of Xinyan

Xinyan is not the most common spelling — Lilyan is, with 85.8% against Xinyan's 0.61%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Xinyan around the world

Where Xinyan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2009–2016
    #5,785
    in 2016
  • Ireland
    2008–2008
    #862
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Central Statistics Office. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0.

Xinyan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#17,152
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 244
Best rank ever
#16,311
2015
Peak year
2015
6 that year
First recorded
2011
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
31
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Xinyan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Xinyan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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