Xuân
Fewer than a hundred people in Poland carry it, almost all of them men, so most Poles will never meet one. The name means "spring", and new births have all but stopped.
Xuân Pronunciation
What Xuân means
Where Xuân comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Xuân is a Vietnamese name. It means spring, the season. The word descends from the Sino-Vietnamese character 春, read chūn in Mandarin, and in Vietnam it belongs to girls and boys alike. On a Polish class register the diacritics may drop, and the name sits there as Xuan. Vietnamese speakers form one of the larger migrant communities in Poland, so the name does turn up here.
The poet Hồ Xuân Hương, writing around 1800, carried Xuân in the middle of her name, and her verse is still read in Vietnamese schools. That same syllable holds the word for spring.
Nothing in the name points to purity or fortune. It names the season, and only that. Spring, in Polish wiosna, is the whole of it.
How many people are named Xuân
1 in 313915 men in Poland is named Xuân. 71 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4288 among male names.
Xuân's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.