Xiaodi
A Chinese name meaning "little brother", carried in Poland by only a handful of people, split almost evenly between women and men. Most Poles have never met one: fewer than a dozen hold it, and no newborns arrived last year.
Xiaodi Pronunciation
What Xiaodi means
Where Xiaodi comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Xiaodi comes from Chinese, where the two syllables spell a plain meaning. Xiǎo is small, dì is younger brother. Put together, 小弟 says little brother, młodszy brat in Polish.
The word works hard in everyday speech before it lands on any birth certificate. A man might use 小弟 to speak of himself modestly, close to the English "yours truly." The name arrives already softened by use, marked as the younger one, the small one.
In Poland the name is rare. Picture a class register at a Warsaw primary school, one Xiaodi among the Kacpers and Zuzannas, a syllable the teacher checks twice before roll call. There are no Polish diminutives for it and no imieniny in the calendar. What remains is the original 小弟 and its meaning, little brother.
How many people are named Xiaodi
1 in 7115396 men in Poland is named Xiaodi. 5 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #28232 among male names.