Xiaoping
A Chinese name almost no one in Poland carries: about 20 people in all, split nearly evenly between women and men. It means "little peace," and no newborn has been given it this century.
Xiaoping Pronunciation
What Xiaoping means
Where Xiaoping comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Xiaoping comes from Chinese, written 小平. The first part, xiǎo, means little or small. The second, píng, means peace or level ground. Together they give the short meaning this site records: little peace, in Polish mały spokój.
The name follows Mandarin custom, where a two-syllable given name joins a common character to a wish for the child. Its most documented bearer is Deng Xiaoping, the leader who reshaped China's economy and died in 1997. Through him the name reached far beyond China, into newspapers and history books.
In Poland it stays rare. A child called Xiaoping on a class register at a Warsaw school would draw a second glance from the teacher. The name has no Polish diminutive, no imieniny in the calendar, no cross-gender variant. It arrives whole.
What it offers is plain. Little peace, mały spokój, held in two small characters.
How many people are named Xiaoping
1 in 1940563 men in Poland is named Xiaoping. 20 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #10122 among male names.