Xiaohu
Chinese in origin, the name means "little tiger". In Poland it's about as rare as a name gets: six men carry it, and records show no boy given it since 2000.
Xiaohu Pronunciation
What Xiaohu means
Where Xiaohu comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Xiaohu comes from Chinese, built from two everyday words. 小 (xiǎo) means "small" or "little", and 虎 (hǔ) means "tiger". Put together they give the sense the name still holds. Little tiger.
The tiger sits near the center of Chinese life. It is one of the twelve animals of the zodiac, and children born in a tiger year are sometimes given tiger names. Xiaohu works as a warm nickname, the kind an aunt or a grandmother might use for a small boy.
In Poland the name arrives without any Polish variant or diminutive. There is no local softening of it, no Xiaohu-ek. A Polish teacher reading a class register meets it whole, four syllables from another language, and the child answers to it as written.
The meaning stays close to the surface. Where many names hide their old sense under centuries of sound change, this one keeps it plain. Small and clear, Xiaohu is the little tiger.
How many people are named Xiaohu
1 in 3557698 men in Poland is named Xiaohu. 6 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #24547 among male names.