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Zixuan

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Child

Zixuan has been given to 71 babies in the U.S. since 2013. 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 2014, with 10 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 65% boys, 35% girls all-time.

Babies named Zixuan, 2019

1 in 579,000

Zixuan over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Zixuan over time

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

20122019

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.

Zixuan: meaning, origin, and history

Child

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zixuan means

Zixuan means “child”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Zixuan is used in Chinese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /t͡sɹ̩.ɕɥɛn/ for Zixuan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 46 boys were recorded with the name Zixuan between 2013 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2014; its best national rank was #8,120 in 2014.

In the United States, 25 girls were recorded with the name Zixuan between 2012 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2014; its best national rank was #13,052 in 2014.

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.

How common is Zixuan?

Zixuan 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 579,000
6 of 3,472,229 births
Among boys only
1 in 299,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
401,129 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zixuan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 401,129 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zixuan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zixuans were born

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

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
46
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (46).

Is Zixuan 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2014 (10)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,120
2014

Spellings of Zixuan

Zixuan is not the most common spelling — Zian is, with 44.7% against Zixuan's 2.3%.

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 Zixuan is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Zixuan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,584,791 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Zixuan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Zixuan is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Zixuan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,668,796 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Zixuan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zixuan around the world

Where Zixuan 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
    2011–2017
    #4,812
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    2008–2009
    #708
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Zixuan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#8,120
2014
Peak year
2014
10 that year
First recorded
2013
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
46
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#13,052
2014
Peak year
2014
8 that year
First recorded
2012
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
25
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Zixuan

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

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Sibling names for Zixuan

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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