Xuan
A Chinese name meaning "spring". In Poland it stays rare, carried by just over a hundred people, and it goes to women and men alike.
Xuan Pronunciation
What Xuan means
Where Xuan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Xuan reaches Polish baby-name lists from Chinese. The meaning recorded beside it is spring, in Polish wiosna. Its origin sits outside the European stock of Jan or Katarzyna, so it arrives with no saint's day and no Slavic root.
In Chinese one sound can be written with many characters, and Xuan is one such sound. Some of those characters point toward jade, others toward warm sun. The character 暄, read xuān, names the warmth of sunshine. The spring sense was fixed to the name as its short meaning, rather than growing from a single old root.
On a Polish class register, Xuan appears with no variant. It stands alone. There is no diminutive and no second form. What it hands a reader stays short: spring, wiosna.
How many people are named Xuan
1 in 234573 men in Poland is named Xuan. 115 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3170 among male names.
Xuan as a middle name
Xuan is a first name for 115 men in Poland and a middle name for another 23, an 83/17 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1836th, between Wade (23) and Zacheusz (23).
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#1834 Vitali23
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#1835 Wade23
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#1836 Xuân23
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#1837 Zacheusz23
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#1838 Abdel22