Xiaoting
A Chinese name meaning "dawn" and "graceful". In Poland it barely registers: about six women carry it and no girl has been given it this century, so most Poles will never meet one.
Xiaoting Pronunciation
What Xiaoting means
Where Xiaoting comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Xiaoting comes from Chinese, and like most Chinese given names it is built rather than inherited. Two characters meet. The first, 晓 (xiǎo), names the dawn, the moment the sky turns from black to grey. The second, 婷 (tíng), describes a person who is graceful, slender, poised. Put together they give the reading held here: dawn, graceful.
Chinese names work differently from Polish ones. There is no fixed set of variants or pet forms attached to Xiaoting, because the parents pick the characters themselves. Another child named Xiaoting might carry 晓 with a different second character entirely. The sound stays; the writing shifts.
On a Polish class register, Xiaoting sits among the Zuzannas and Krzysztofs as a name spelled from pinyin, the romanisation used across mainland China since the 1950s. It takes no name-day, no imieniny. Its meaning stays plain: świt, wdzięczna, dawn and graceful.
How many people are named Xiaoting
1 in 3757306 women in Poland is named Xiaoting. 6 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #24550 among female names.