Xuan

given name · Vietnamese · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Xuan is a given name, most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is the 17th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Vietnamese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Latin Iohannes, from Ancient Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Hebrew יוחנן (Yôḥānān, “Yahweh is gracious”).

rarermore common
  • VNVietnam1 in 130◐
  • MYMalaysia1 in 4.9K
  • SGSingapore1 in 8.9K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈6.0K ●

across 9 countries

Sources
192 ●

410K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 11K ◐

Iceland

Spellings & scripts●

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Xuân in MO Macao, IT Italy.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Derivation of Xuan: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Xuan
  1. LatinIohannes●
  2. Ancient GreekἸωάννηςIōánnēs●
  3. HebrewיוחנןYôḥānān“Yahweh is gracious”●

From Latin Iohannes, from Ancient Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Hebrew יוחנן (Yôḥānān, “Yahweh is gracious”).

Sources 3

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Xuan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VN Vietnam#17654,516372K rec.—listedXuan192
MY Malaysia#34613,2899.1K rec.——Xuan53
US United States—4,92224K rec.1 in 68K4.9KXuan117
SG Singapore#4441,2061.2K rec.——Xuan52
GB United Kingdom—1,0091.4K rec.—listedXuan31
CA Canada—558646 rec.—7Xuan35
SE Sweden—445△21 rec.1 in 23K445—6
CN China—324317 rec.——Xuan24
ID Indonesia—273358 rec.——Xuan24
ES Spain—198△65 rec.1 in 253K198—15
RU Russia—169232 rec.——Xuan14
NL Netherlands—10089 rec.1 in 173K100Xuan14

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Vietnamese534K75%
  • English73K10%
  • Chinese19K3%
  • 18K3%
  • Malay13K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Vietnamese533,60775%
English73,20010%
Chinese18,7023%
18,2463%
Malay13,2782%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Xuan is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name187K records spelled Xuan34 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom, China

    Also written Xuân, Xuán, Xuàn, Xūâñ, Ẍuâñ

  • English given name112K records spelled Xuan19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Malaysia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Xuân, Xúan, Ẍuan, Xuán, Xüan

  • Chinese given name48K records spelled Xuan4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, China, Malaysia, Taiwan

    Also written Xuân, Xu-An, Xu'An

  • a separate given name25K records spelled Xuan5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, China, United Kingdom, Singapore

    Also written Xuân, Xu'An, Xuán, Xuån

  • Spanish given name17K records spelled Xuan9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, El Salvador, Spain, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Xuân, Xuán, Xuãn, Xüan, Xǔân

  • French given name8.2K records spelled Xuan7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, China

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Xuân, Xùan, Xuän, Xûan, Xuăn

  • Czech given name3.3K records spelled Xuan4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Xuân

  • Hindi given name2.8K records spelled Xuan4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, United States, China, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Xuân

61 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Xuan is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In och, to turn around, to wheel; to turn around, return; all round; agile; ring

    as a wordSchuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)

  • In Chinese, nonstandard spelling of xuān

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Asturian, John (Biblical figure)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In och, Flutter the eyes, scared

    as a wordSchuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

051015198019902000201015 · 1981

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Xuan in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1977–2019
Yearrecords
19776
19795
19805
198115
198213
19838
198412
198514
198610
198715
19888
19895
19907
19918
19925
19939
19945
19957
19966
19995
200211
20036
20066
20097
20107
20116
20126
20135
20148
20155
20168
20197

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 32 years between 1977–2019. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

0500100015002000Zheng Xuan, b. 127Emperor Xizong of Tang, b. 862Zhou Xuan, b. 1918Viet Xuan Luong, b. 1965Zhang Xuan, b. 1968Michelle Ye, b. 1980Huang Xuan, b. 1985Océane Zhu, b. 1987Minh Nguyễn, b. 1987Deng Xuan, b. 1992

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 61 sources across 30 countries.

Official registers attesting Xuan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204.9K#3,153
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202K#3,153
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020812#30,718
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010445#47,614
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—445#3,012
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—280#2,845
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—260#3,007
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—198#9,120
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—192#4,950
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—188#4,404
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000177#95,567
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—121#6,022

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 249 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Xuan?
We estimate roughly 6.0 thousand people bear Xuan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Xuan have the most bearers?
Xuan is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled xuan.
How common is Xuan compared with other names?
In Vietnam, Xuan is the 17th most common given name of 72,115 given names recorded there.
Is Xuan a male or female name?
Xuan is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What does the name Xuan mean?
Recorded meaning: From Latin Iohannes, from Ancient Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Hebrew יוחנן (Yôḥānān, “Yahweh is gracious”).
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Xuan” — the 17th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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