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for Xian I would automatically prounce it Christian as X is the greek letter for Christ. But then I may not be in the majority for this at all!

I would say it's more chee-AHN and chahn, but it depends on what signs you are using to write the names.

Usually it's transcribed as the sound "sh", not sure about how it affect the meaning, that would depend on ideograms.

There was a New Zealander-Chinese girl in the news here lately named Qian Xun, pronounced shahn shoon (approximately). If Xun is 'shoon' I would instinctively pronounce Xian 'shahn' and Xan 'shan'. But that's just extrapolation, I could be very wrong.

An x in Pinyin is pronounced somewhere between the English 's' and 'sh' sounds. I'm not familiar with these names but from all of the Mandarin Chinese I've studied, I would say they are pronounced as one syllable each. Hope this helps a bit!

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Sara