Xie

At the 2020 census, 16,076 Americans bore the surname Xie — 2,207th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 18,600.

By the numbers

People: 16,076
Rank: 2,207th
How common: 1 in 18,600
Per 100,000: 5.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Chinese

From the cmn-pinyin romanization of the cmn 謝.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 96.8%
White, not Hispanic 2.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%
Hispanic or Latino 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.03%

Notable people called Xie

Xie Jun (born 1970)Chinese chess player
You Xie (born 1958)Chinese-German politician and writer
Xie Xingfang (born 1981)Chinese badminton player
Xie Zhenye (born 1993)Chinese sprinter
Xie Jin (1923–2008)Chinese film director
Xie Fuzhi (1909–1972)Chinese politician
Xie Lingyun (385–433)Jin Dynasty poet
Zheng Xie (1693–1766)Chinese painter

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

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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.