Xiaoling
A Chinese name meaning "dawn, tinkling jade". It barely exists in Poland: only 15 people carry it, almost all of them women, and most Poles will never meet one.
Xiaoling Pronunciation
What Xiaoling means
Where Xiaoling comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Xiaoling comes to Polish parents from Chinese, where a name is built from characters rather than inherited whole. The common writing pairs 晓, xiǎo, meaning dawn or daybreak, with 玲, líng, the sound of jade ringing clear. Together they give the meaning kept here: dawn, tinkling jade.
The second character rarely travels alone. It sits inside 玲珑, línglóng, a word for something small and finely wrought, a carved lattice or a bell heard far off. Chinese girls have worn 玲 for generations, and 晓 sets first light beside it.
On a Polish class register the name stands apart. It has no slot on the imieniny calendar, so it brings no name-day. What it brings instead is legible in its two parts: daybreak, and the clear ring of jade.
How many people are named Xiaoling
1 in 1734141 women in Poland is named Xiaoling. 15 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #12401 among female names.