The surname Hsieh
A Chinese surname, carried by 6,382 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex H200
Origin
Chinese origin
From the Mandarin 謝 /谢 (Xiè) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsieh⁴.
One of 193 Chinese surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 6,382 people named Hsieh in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 48,378 Americans. That is up 16% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,494.
Who is named Hsieh
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
94% of people named Hsieh identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 3.5% as two or more races and 1.9% as white (not Hispanic).
- Asian and Pacific Islander 94%
- Two or more races 3.5%
- White (not Hispanic) 1.9%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.7%
Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Variant spellings
Hsieh has the Soundex code H200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H200.
Other Chinese surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Hsieh come from?
- From the Mandarin 謝 /谢 (Xiè) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsieh⁴.
- How common is the surname Hsieh?
- 6,382 people in the United States had the surname Hsieh in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 48,378 Americans. It ranked 5,453rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Hsieh?
- In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Hsieh identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 3.5% as two or more races.
- Is the surname Hsieh getting more or less common?
- More common. 5,494 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,382 in 2010, up 16%.
- What are other spellings of Hsieh?
- Xie.