How common is the surname Xiong?

37,499 people in the United States had the surname Xiong in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 8,233 Americans. It ranked 929th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Xiong?

Jeffery Xiong, American chess player, followed by Xiong Chaozhong.

Where is the surname Xiong most common?

Wikidata records people named Xiong in the People's Republic of China and the United States.

Is the surname Xiong getting more or less common?

More common. 26,336 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 37,499 in 2010, up 42%.

The surname Xiong

A surname, carried by 37,499 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex X520

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Xiong is more common than 99.4% of them.

Origin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 熊 (Xióng). Doublet of Hsiung.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 37,499 people named Xiong in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 8,233 Americans. That is up 42% since 2000, when the Census counted 26,336.

#929

rank among US surnames

37,499

people in 2010

per 100,000 Americans

+42.4%

change since 2000 (was #1,219)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#920	Blanchard	37,695	8,191
#921	Horne	37,689	8,192
#922	Finley	37,672	8,196
#923	Quintana	37,657	8,199
#924	Lynn	37,644	8,202
#925	Esquivel	37,578	8,216
#926	Bean	37,571	8,218

Who is named Xiong

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

98% of people named Xiong identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 1.1% as two or more races.

Asian and Pacific Islander 98%
Two or more races 1.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.3%
White (not Hispanic) 0.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.0%

Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.

Famous Xiongs

3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Jeffery Xiong
American chess player, born 2000
Xiong Chaozhong
Boxer, born 1982
Hung Yan-yan
Actor, born 1962

Notable Xiongs come mostly from the People's Republic of China (2) and the United States (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Hsiung

Surnames that sound like Xiong

Xiong has the Soundex code X520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code X520.

Questions

Where does the surname Xiong come from?: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 熊 (Xióng). Doublet of Hsiung.
How common is the surname Xiong?: 37,499 people in the United States had the surname Xiong in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 8,233 Americans. It ranked 929th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Xiong?: In the 2010 Census, 98% of people named Xiong identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 1.1% as two or more races.
Who is the most famous person named Xiong?: Jeffery Xiong, American chess player, followed by Xiong Chaozhong.
Where is the surname Xiong most common?: Wikidata records people named Xiong in the People's Republic of China and the United States.
Is the surname Xiong getting more or less common?: More common. 26,336 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 37,499 in 2010, up 42%.
What are other spellings of Xiong?: Hsiung.