Entry № 11611 · Chinese origin

Xishi Xishi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHEE-shr /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Chinese
Meaning
"First of the Four Beauties of ancient China"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Chinese)

A name that means "first of the four beauties of ancient china".

BCE) — a peasant girl whose beauty was so great that, when she washed silk in the river, the fish forgot to swim and sank to the bottom.

Featured in countless Chinese paintings and operas.

First of the Four Beauties of ancient China — a Chinese name.

The name in its native script.

西施
Transliteration
Xī Shī
Pronunciation
/ ˈʃiː.ʃiː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Xishi stands.

Xishi 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.

Xishis before her.

Real people
Xishi
First of the Four Beauties.
5th c. BCE
In fiction
Xishi
Chinese opera tradition.

Names connected to Xishi.

The number behind Xishi.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Xishi reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.