The Xie surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 9,716 people carried this name — #3,662 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 30,400 people counted. That is up 102% from 4,812 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Xie surname
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 謝 /谢 (xiè).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Xie» (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 451 people named Xie 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.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere 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
179 people named Xie live in Switzerland.
They live in 13 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere 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 Belgium’s population register
At least 62 people named Xie live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Flemish Brabant.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 24 people named Xie.
Most of them — 23 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 1 département, most often Paris.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
276 people named Xie 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
Xie in American newspapers,
1915.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain.
In print
Xie in Australian newspapers,
1860s–2000s.
546 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Xie. The most, 118, date from the 1920s. Victoria has the most articles, but weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, the name stands out most in South Australia, at 1.7 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 Xie.
Who carried it
People named Xie,
with a public archive behind them.
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Xie Fangshu d. 1272 · politician
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Xie Fangshu d. 1272 · politician
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Xie Cheng d. 1394 · military personnel
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Xie Cheng d. 1393 · military personnel
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Xie Tao d. 1034 · politician
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Xie Guan d. 865 · author
Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
In the public record
People named Xie,
in the records of 2 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.
France2 records
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Example: French death register, 1930 Death record Zhonghao XieBorn 1967 in China; died 1995 in Paris.
Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte) -
Example: French death register, 1930 Death record Dong Yi XieBorn 1964 in China; died 1991 in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine).
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).
Canada1 record
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Example: Canadian cemetery Burial record Po Yee XieDied 1996; buried at Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver, British Columbia.
City of Vancouver. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Vancouver.
Counts: City of Vancouver. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Vancouver. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax, photo by Edgar El (CC BY 3.0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Xie.
- Wynne 9,637 · U.S. census
- Wypych 213 · U.S. census
- Wyrick 6,391 · U.S. census
- Wysocki 4,758 · U.S. census
- Wyss 2,102 · U.S. census
- Xavier 3,367 · U.S. census
- Ximenez 401 · U.S. census
- Xiong 37,499 · U.S. census
- Xu 25,622 · U.S. census
- Xuereb 245 · U.S. census
- Ya 600 · U.S. census
- Yacono 418 · U.S. census
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