Xia is a female first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Xia is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Xia. In the SmartGenius ranking, Xia is #4,263 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Xia.
In fact, the name Xia hardly fits the trend of first names for girls. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Xia wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1989, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 3,065, 31 parents chose it in 1989 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Xia, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Xia was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Xia a few times. Among all newborn girls, it ranked 3,640, for a total of 35 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Xia seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
The first name Xia is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 92 Americans in total bear this name. And these 92 women are located in only three states: California, Florida and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Xia and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Xia in relation to it’s female population is California. And yet even there, only one in 244,474 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Xia.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter X is very rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 0.3% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. Only the letter U is even rarer as the first letter of girls' names. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A and S.
With only three letters, the name Xia is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 0.3% of all girls' names starting with an X, all other letters occur on average more than ten times as often as the X. Moreover, of the comparatively few girls' names that start with X, most of them aren't very common either - the most popular one currently is Ximena.
If your name is Xia and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Xia, you can simply say:
Xylophone
Igloo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Xia
Xia
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
X
I
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
X
I
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Xia sounds like this:
