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.
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.
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.