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Xuan

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Yahweh is gracious

Xuan has been given to 267 babies in the U.S. since 1977. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1981, with 15 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 91% girls, 9% boys all-time.

Babies named Xuan, 2019

1 in 496,000

Xuan over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Xuan over time

In 2019, Xuan went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19772019

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Xuan: meaning, origin, and history

Yahweh is gracious

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Xuan means

Xuan means “Yahweh is gracious”, associated with Yôḥānān.

Origin, language, and formation

Xuan is used in Asturian and Leonese.

Xuan comes through Old Leonese Johan, Latin Iohannes, Ancient Greek Ἰωάννης and Hebrew יוחנן.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include John.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Leonese, Xuan is pronounced /ˈʃwan/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 242 girls were recorded with the name Xuan between 1977 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1981; its best national rank was #4,957 in 1981.

In the United States, 25 boys were recorded with the name Xuan between 1985 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2016; its best national rank was #6,507 in 1985.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Xuan?

Xuan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 496,000
7 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 240,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
343,825 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Xuan 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 2019 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 343,825 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Xuan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Xuans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Xuan was born before 1990 — so the typical Xuan is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
43.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
38.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
242
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 43.4% of all recorded uses (105).

Is Xuan 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1981 (15)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,957
1981

Spellings of Xuan

Xuan is not the most common spelling — Susan is, with 49.6% against Xuan's 0.01%.

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.

Where Xuan is used

Across 1910–2025, Xuan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,047,915 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Xuan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Xuan around the world

Where Xuan 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
    2005–2016
    #4,763
    in 2016
  • France
    1970–2016
    #5,631
    in 2016
  • Canada
    1994–2018
    #3,159
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1983–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Xuan by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,957
1981
Peak year
1981
15 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
242
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,507
1985
Peak year
2016
8 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
25
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Xuan

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

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Sibling names for Xuan

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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