Xiong

45,183 people in the United States were counted with the surname Xiong in the 2020 census, making it the 750th most common in the country. That is about one person in 6,615.

By the numbers

People: 45,183
Rank: 750th
How common: 1 in 6,615
Per 100,000: 15.1

Where the name comes from

From the cmn-pinyin romanization of the cmn pronunciation of Chinese 熊.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 97.3%
White, not Hispanic 1.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.0%
Hispanic or Latino 0.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.04%

Notable people called Xiong

Yang Xiong (52 BC–18)Chinese linguist, poet and writer (53 BCE – 18 CE)
Xiong Ni (born 1974)Chinese sport diver
Hua Xiong (200–191)Chinese military general
Jeffery Xiong (born 2000)American chess player
Li Xiong (274–334)Cheng-Han dynasty emperor from 303 to 334
Xiong Xiling (1870–1937)Premier of the Republic of China

People named Xiong 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.