Xi

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Xi: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

2registrars recorded it
14times a registrar ranked it
10years from first to last
#893highest recorded position
1grouping it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2007–2016

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2007	#3667
2008	#3397
2009	#4564
2010	#5707
2011	#5785
2012	#4171
2013	#4739
2015	#4736
2016	#3609

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 9 of the 10 years from 2007 to 2016.

In 2009: #893 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #4564 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 2007–2016 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2007
First recorded at #3667 among girls in England and Wales in 2007 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2016
Most recently recorded at #3609 among girls in England and Wales, in 2016.
England and Wales · Girls

Xi appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 9 years beginning in 2007, and has registered 40 births with the name.

Xi across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Xi's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3667 (2007)	#3397 (2008)	#3609 (2016)	9 of 10	40 (2007–2016)	6 (2008)
England and Wales · Boys	#2741 (2007)	#2741 (2007)	#3865 (2010)	4 of 4	19 (2007–2010)	6 (2007)

Xi appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Names recorded by exactly 2 registrars

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 2007 to 2016. Highest recorded position: #893 in Republic of Ireland in 2009.

Xi's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2016	England and Wales	female	#3609	6	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4736	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4739	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4171	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3865	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#4564	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#4527	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3397	6	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2775	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3667	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2741	6	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#893	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 2007 and 2016, ranked in 9 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #893, first reached in 2009.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 6 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2009, and 2 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

2decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 2 decades →
7 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
2separate stretches the record falls into2 separate stretches →
1 yearlongest absence inside the recorded periodA single year missing →
#3,609position in 2016, its most recent recorded year
2 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itWithin 2 years →
6births registered in its largest year, 2007Under 25 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Csenge · #893, 13y
Elanna · #893, 14y
Elita · #893, 14y
Chinelo · #894, 10y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Csenge · #893, 13y
Annabeth · #894, 18y
Lanah · #894, 16y
Lilyann · #894, 15y

Xi was ranked #893 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2009. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Xi and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Xi without appearing here.

Xi moved ahead of

Belinda Compare
In 2015 they stood at #4736 and #2945 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #3609 and #5785.
Geraldine Compare
In 2015 they stood at #4739 and #3536 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #3609 and #5785.
Kristine Compare
In 2015 they stood at #4736 and #3252 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #3609 and #5785.
Denise Compare
In 2015 they stood at #4736 and #2945 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #3609 and #4763.

Moved ahead of Xi

Meabh Compare
In 2012 they stood at #4171 and #5876 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #4739 and #2887.
Helene Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3397 and #4524 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #4564 and #3422.
Blake Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3667 and #5201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #4564 and #3936.
Malin Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3397 and #3860 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #4564 and #3936.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 2007 to 2016. Highest recorded position: #893 in Republic of Ireland in 2009. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

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