The Hsieh surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 6,382 people carried this name — #5,453 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 46,300 people counted. That is up 16% from 5,494 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Hsieh surname
From the Mandarin 謝 /谢 (Xiè) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsieh⁴.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Hsieh» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 107 people named Hsieh live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in City of Buenos Aires.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
34 people named Hsieh live in Switzerland.
They live in 4 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
60 people named Hsieh is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Hsieh in American newspapers,
1921–1925.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 776 pages in all carry the name.
In print
Hsieh in Australian newspapers,
1920s–1970s.
56 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Hsieh. The most, 12, date from the 1940s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in the Australian Capital Territory, at 2.7 times its expected share.
Articles, by state
Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Hsieh.
Who carried it
People named Hsieh,
with a public archive behind them.
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Iris Hsieh d. 2025 · influencer
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Chiao-min Hsieh 1918–2015 · geographer
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Chiao-min Hsieh 1921–2015 · geographer
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Frederic Hsieh 1945–1999
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Warren Hsieh 1951–2009 · actor
Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
In the public record
People named Hsieh,
in the records of 3 countries.
Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.
United States52 records
- U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 50
- New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 2
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Example: U.S. alien registration card, 1940s Alien registration Andrew Y. HsiehBorn 1911 in Lungchuan, China. Entered the United States at San Francisco in 1949. Listed in the U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955.
U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) -
Example: U.S. death certificate, 1910 Death record Lennie HsiehDied 1943 in Manhattan, New York, aged 41.
NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) -
Example: marriage register, New York, 1838 Marriage record Ying Po HsiehMarried in 1915 in Brooklyn, New York.
NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data)
Showing 3 of 52 records for Hsieh in the United States.
Counts: U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Alien Registration Receipt Card, Form AR-3, photo by Bobjgalindo via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0); Certificate of death, Oregon State Board of Health, 1910, Oregon State Archives (public domain); Marriage register, Methodist church in Manhattan, 1837–1838 (public domain).
Netherlands4 records
- Dutch civil registers (births, marriages, deaths) 3
- Dutch population registers 1
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Example: marriage register, 1911 Marriage record Yao Long HsiehMarried in 1939 in Rotterdam. Died 1943 in Atlantische Oceaan.
Open Archives, Stadsarchief Rotterdam (CC BY 4.0) -
Example: marriage register, 1911 Marriage record William HsiehMarried in 1922 in 's-Gravenhage.
Open Archives, Haags Gemeentearchief (CC BY 4.0) -
Example: U.S. census, 1910 Population register Yao Long HsiehIn a population register.
Open Archives, Stadsarchief Rotterdam (CC BY 4.0)
Showing 3 of 4 records for Hsieh in the Netherlands.
Counts: Open Archives (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Marriage register, Tilburg, 1911, Regionaal Archief Tilburg (public domain); U.S. census of 1910, Milwaukee (public domain).
France1 record
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Example: French death register, 1930 Death record Wen-Ching HsiehBorn 1954 in Taipei (Chine Nationaliste); died 1998 in Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis).
Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte)
Counts: Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Death register of Nice, 1930, Archives départementales des Alpes-Maritimes (public domain).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Hsieh.
- Howlett 5,364 · U.S. census
- Hoy 9,196 · U.S. census
- Hoyer 3,589 · U.S. census
- Hoyle 9,192 · U.S. census
- Hoyos 3,694 · U.S. census
- Hoyt 21,169 · U.S. census
- Hsu 16,907 · U.S. census
- Hu 19,999 · U.S. census
- Hua 6,939 · U.S. census
- Huan 248 · U.S. census
- Huang 72,328 · U.S. census
- Huard 1,360 · U.S. census
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