Entry № 2081 · Chinese origin

Cixi Cixi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TSUH-shee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Chinese
Meaning
"Qing Dowager Empress (the Old Buddha)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Chinese)

A name that means "qing dowager empress (the old buddha)".

Cixi (慈禧, 1835-1908) — "motherly auspicious" — was the Qing Dynasty Dowager Empress who effectively ruled China for 47 years (1861-1908) through her son Tongzhi and nephew Guangxu emperors.

The Old Buddha.

The name in its native script.

慈禧
Transliteration
Cíxǐ
Pronunciation
/ ˈtsʌ.ʃi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Cixi stands.

Cixi does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Cixis before her.

Real people
Empress Dowager Cixi
Qing Dynasty regent.
1835 – 1908
In fiction
Cixi
Subject of The Empress Dowager.
Jung Chang, 2013

Names connected to Cixi.

The number behind Cixi.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Cixi reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.