Xiao

10,322 people in the United States were counted with the surname Xiao in the 2020 census, making it the 3,387th most common in the country. That is about one person in 29,000.

By the numbers

People: 10,322
Rank: 3,387th
How common: 1 in 29,000
Per 100,000: 3.5

Where the name comes from

From the cmn-pinyin romanization of cmn for.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Xiao described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 96.4%
White, not Hispanic 2.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
Hispanic or Latino 0.2%

1 category is not listed because nobody with this surname reported that background.

Notable people called Xiao

Xiao Zhan (born 1991)Chinese actor and singer
Xiao Ruoteng (born 1996)Chinese artistic gymnast
Xiao Qin (born 1985)Chinese gymnast
Xiao He (256 BC–192 BC)Han dynasty chancellor
Xiao Guodong (born 1989)Chinese snooker player
Cheng Xiao (born 1998)Chinese singer, actress and model
Xiao Baojuan (483–502)Southern Qi emperor
Xiao Hailiang (born 1977)Chinese sport diver

People named Xiao with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Xiao

Xia
Xiang

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.