Xiaoying
A Chinese name read in English as "dawn, jade". In Poland it barely registers: about a dozen women carry it, and no girl has been given it in the years on record.
Xiaoying Pronunciation
What Xiaoying means
Where Xiaoying comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Xiaoying comes from Chinese, and its most common written form is 晓莹. The first character, 晓 (xiǎo), means dawn or daybreak. The second, 莹 (yíng), names the luster of jade, a clear and bright stone. Read together, the two give the sense of dawn and jade.
The name has no root in Polish or in any European language. It reaches Polish only as a borrowing, set down in pinyin letters. No saint stands behind it. So it carries no name-day.
Picture it on a class register at a Polish school. Xiaoying would sit among names with imieniny fixed to a calendar date, and it would keep none of its own. The Chinese sound does not bend into Polish endings, and it takes no diminutive here.
What stays fixed is the pair of characters and their reading: 晓 for dawn, 莹 for the shine of jade.
How many people are named Xiaoying
1 in 1878653 women in Poland is named Xiaoying. 12 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #14664 among female names.