Xiao

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Xiao: Recorded since 2003, it reached #937 in 2011, and it was last ranked in 2018.

2registrars recorded it
19times a registrar ranked it
16years from first to last
#937highest recorded position
5groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2003–2018

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2003	#4373
2004	#4598
2006	#4157
2007	#4294
2008	#3397
2009	#3422
2010	#4012
2012	#3285
2013	#4739
2018	#5666

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 10 of the 16 years from 2003 to 2018.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 2003–2018 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2003
First recorded at #4373 among girls in England and Wales in 2003 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2018
Most recently recorded at #5666 among girls in England and Wales, in 2018.
England and Wales · Girls

Xiao appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 10 years beginning in 2003, and has registered 45 births with the name.

Xiao 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.

Xiao'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	#4373 (2003)	#3285 (2012)	#5666 (2018)	10 of 16	45 (2003–2018)	7 (2012)
England and Wales · Boys	#3651 (2004)	#2435 (2007)	#4632 (2014)	8 of 11	39 (2004–2014)	7 (2007)

Xiao appears in

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 2003 to 2018. Highest recorded position: #937 in Republic of Ireland in 2011.

Xiao'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
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#4632	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4739	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3285	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3987	4	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4012	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2941	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3422	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3227	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3397	6	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3158	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#4294	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2435	7	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#4157	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2538	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	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 2003 and 2018, ranked in 12 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #937, first reached in 2011.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 7 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2011, and 8 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 →
9 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
3separate stretches the record falls into3 separate stretches →
3 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period2 to 3 years missing →
#5,666position in 2018, its most recent recorded year
8 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 6 to 10 years →
1registrars publishing it in more than one category listIn one registrar's lists →
7births 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

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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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.

Avin · #937, 14y
Dagmara · #937, 13y
Ksenija · #907, 10y
Success · #907, 12y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

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

Avin · #937, 14y
Dagmara · #937, 13y
Ellianna · #937, 18y
Clemmie · #936, 11y

Xiao was ranked #937 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2011. 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.

Xiao 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 Xiao without appearing here.

Xiao moved ahead of

Ellinor Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4012 and #4012 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #3285 and #5876.
Therese Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4012 and #3156 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #3285 and #4838.
Kristine Compare
In 2012 they stood at #3285 and #2969 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #4739 and #5742.
Kim Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3227 and #2544 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #2941 and #3865.

Moved ahead of Xiao

Isak Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3158 and #3687 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #3227 and #2318.
Aksel Compare
In 2011 they stood at #2941 and #3332 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #3987 and #3416.

What's not yet available

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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 2003 to 2018. Highest recorded position: #937 in Republic of Ireland in 2011. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

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Xiao across 2 official records

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Xiao across 2 official records

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