Given name & surname
Xiong
Xiong is a surname from Mandarin, ultimately from Chinese.
Original Chinese熊
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Xiong comes from Mandarin, and ultimately from Chinese.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1980. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Xiong through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 176
- 176 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1990
- 17 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 boys is 5 in 1997. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 17 in 1990. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,244 as a first name in 2020; 45,183 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.
Xiong’s family of names
In English usage, Xiong as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with HSIUNG. In English usage, Xiong as a surname was borrowed from the Chinese form 熊. In English usage, Xiong as a surname has a related form in HSIUNG.
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 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Xiong
- Cao Xiongson of Chinese Han dynasty warlord Cao Cao195–220
- Ren XiongChinese Qing dynasty painter (1823–1857)
- Phạm HùngKing of Champa250
Characters named Xiong: Yang Xiong (Water Margin).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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