Given name & surname

Xue

“woman of snow”·“a studious young man”

Xue is used as a given name and a surname. Interpretations include “woman of snow” (Chinese) and “a studious young man” (Chinese). These may reflect different naming traditions.

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Meaning & origin

What it means

Interpretations include “woman of snow” (Chinese) and “a studious young man” (Chinese). These may reflect different naming traditions.

Where it comes from

An origin associated with this spelling is Chinese.

How it developed

From Mandarin 薛 (“type of grass; name of an ancient state, fief”).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1981. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Xue through the years

Babies since 1880: 139; 110 boys · 29 girls
Most popular year: 1989; 16 babies
2025: 0; Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20: —; Too few births to compare

Boys Girls

Xue in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1981–2025, per million births of each sex. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2000. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 7 in 1981. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,315 as a first name in 2020; 6,014 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.

Xue’s family of names

In English usage, Xue as a surname has a related form in HSUEH. In English usage, Xue as a surname has a related form in HSUEH.

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Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

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Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Hsuehvariant · English

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Ksuelikely spelling

Across languages 6

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Xue

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