Entry № 11600 · Chinese origin

Xia Xia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHEE-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Chinese
Meaning
"Summer, glow of sunrise"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Chinese)

A name that means "summer, glow of sunrise".

Xia in Chinese is written 夏 (summer), 霞 (the glow of sunrise or sunset clouds), or 厦 (a large building). The summer character is also the name of the legendary Xia dynasty, traditionally the first Chinese dynasty.

Xia is used as a Chinese girls' name particularly in southern China. The pinyin romanization Xia represents a sound (something like "shee-ah") that English speakers often find tricky — but the meanings are radiant.

Summer, glow of sunrise — a Chinese name.

The name in its native script.

夏 · 霞
Transliteration
Xià
Pronunciation
/ ˈʃiː.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Xia stands.

Xia 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.

Xias before her.

Real people
Xia Yuan
Chinese painter of the Yuan dynasty (male; the character).
In fiction

Names connected to Xia.

The number behind Xia.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Xia reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.