Xion

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 39 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
39
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#3684
5 babies

Xion by the numbers

In 2025, 5 babies in England and Wales were named Xion. In the US, 39 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.

Its American peak was 44 babies in 2016, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Xion

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Xion. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Xianimmortal or virtuous; graceful and noble9 in the US (2017)
  • Xyon10 in the US (2017)
  • Xyion5 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Xion

Names that are said the same way as Xion, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Zionpromised land; the promised city374 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Zyonpromised land; the promised city; a respelling of Zion186 in the US (2017)
  • Zionnpromised land; a form of Zion5 in the US (2017)
  • Zyan21 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Zian25 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Zyonn17 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Xion

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