Xin
A Chinese name meaning "new, fresh, prosperous". In Poland it stays rare, carried by around 130 people and split almost evenly between women and men, one of the few names that lands as truly unisex here.
Xin Pronunciation
What Xin means
Where Xin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Xin comes from Chinese, where it is written with characters that a Polish alphabet cannot show. One of them, 新, means new. Read that character and you have the plain sense the name carries: something fresh, a start not yet used, a page still blank.
The tie to prosperity runs through a different character. That association came later, from families who wanted a child's life to open and grow rather than stay small. So Xin holds two meanings at once. It names newness, and it names the good fortune a new beginning might bring. The name has no diminutive in Polish, no Xinek or Xinka, and no Polish variant. It stands as it is.
Picture the name in a school register in Kraków, sitting among the Zuzannas and Kacpers. Xin has no imieniny on the Polish calendar, so there is no name-day cake to mark. That absence does not shrink it. The word still says what it said in Chinese: nowy, fresh, the first of something.
How many people are named Xin
1 in 277223 men in Poland is named Xin. 134 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2868 among male names.
Xin as a middle name
Xin is a first name for 134 men in Poland and a middle name for another 7, a 95/5 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3140th, between Wisła (7) and Yafa (7).
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#3138 Wirdżinia7
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#3139 Wisła7
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#3140 Xin7
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#3141 Yafa7
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#3142 Yagoda7