Xiaoli
A Chinese name meaning "dawn", carried by fewer than 40 women in Poland and no men. Most Poles have never met one, and the records show no newborn given it since 2000.
Xiaoli Pronunciation
What Xiaoli means
Where Xiaoli comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Xiaoli comes from Chinese, and its sense lives in two written characters. The first, xiǎo (晓), names the dawn, the hour when the sky turns pale. The second, lì (丽), means beautiful. Read together, they give the name most people know: beautiful dawn.
The name has no Polish diminutive and no variant to stand behind. It arrives whole. On a school register in Kraków, Xiaoli can sit between a Zuzanna and a Julia, a single line that asks the teacher to slow down and read it once more.
In Polish the name has drawn a second reading, jaśmin, the jasmine flower. That association came later, from the sound of the name and from the white blossom, and it does not come from the characters themselves. Behind the flower, xiǎo still means dawn.
How many people are named Xiaoli
1 in 578047 women in Poland is named Xiaoli. 39 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6290 among female names.