Given name & surname
“a star”
Xing is used as a given name and a surname. One Chinese interpretation is “a star.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Chinese interpretation is “a star.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Chinese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2000. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Xing through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 12
- 5 boys · 7 girls
- Most popular year
- 2000
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 2000. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,599 as a first name in 2020; 2,618 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 22
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Xing
- Jin XingChinese ballerina, modern dancer, choreographer and actressborn 1967
- Xian XinghaiChinese composer (1905–1945)
- Xu XingChinese paleontologistborn 1969
- Yao XingLater Qin emperor366–416
- Wang XingChinese businessmanborn 1979
- Cheng XingChinese badminton playerborn 2002
- Ou XingRebel general
- Liu XingChinese Go playerborn 1984
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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