Xiaowei
A Chinese name carrying "dawn" and "greatness". Barely 40 people in Poland use it, split almost evenly between women and men, so it reads as genuinely unisex.
Xiaowei Pronunciation
What Xiaowei means
Where Xiaowei comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Xiaowei comes to Polish name lists from Chinese, where it is built from two written characters rather than one root. The origin here is filed as "other," which fits a name assembled in a way European names are not. One common spelling joins xiǎo, meaning dawn or daybreak, with wěi, meaning great or mighty. That pairing gives the short meaning recorded on this page: dawn and greatness.
In Mandarin the name is a compound, and the character a parent chooses can shift its sense. Same syllable, different character, different meaning. A writing with wěi leans toward greatness, while a different wei would point elsewhere. On a Polish szkolna lista obecności the name would sit without an imieniny, since name-days follow the Catholic calendar and Xiaowei has no saint.
The name carries no Polish diminutive and no standard variant. It stays as written: Xiaowei, dawn and greatness.
How many people are named Xiaowei
1 in 853848 men in Poland is named Xiaowei. 42 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5981 among male names.