Given name & surname · also Old Galician-Portuguese
Xián
Xián is a masculine given name from Old Galician-Portuguese, ultimately from Latin. It is used in Galician.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Xián comes from Old Galician-Portuguese, and ultimately from Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Xián’s family of names
In Galician usage, Xián has a conventional equivalent in the English form Julian. In Galician usage, Xián has a related form in XIAO. In Galician usage, Xián has a related form in XIAO.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 10
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- JulianEnglish
- Sianequivalent
- Xianafeminine form
- Yinequivalent
- Hyeonequivalent
- Hsienequivalent
- Xulioequivalent
- 弦equivalent
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