Xiao
Meaning
varies by character: often 晓, 'dawn, daybreak', or 笑, 'smile'; a pinyin-era given name
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Xiao has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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Popularity in Brazil
147 people · the #31,519 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 1,000,000 · median age 38
Among people named Xiao living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1980s than in any other decade.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
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