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Xi/席/奚/习 doesn't even fall under the 200 most common surnames in Mainland China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_Chinese_surnames#Mainland_China ht

• freemint 5y ago
  Xie is number 23
  • jhgb 5y ago
    Xie is not Xi which in turn is not the 'xi' consonant.
• jjk166 5y ago
  But it's significantly more common as a last name than any of the other greek letters. 席 is number 213. For context, Armstrong is the 213th most common surname in America. There are still many tens of thousands of people with that surname, it is clearly recognizable as common a surname, and you have definitely heard of at least one Armstrong.
  • jhgb 5y ago
    > But it's significantly more common as a last name than any of the other greek letters. Mu (https://forebears.io/surnames?q=mu https://forebears.io/surnames?q=mu) is more common than Xi (https://forebears.io/surnames?q=xi https://forebears.io/surnames?q=xi).