Ksenija

Girls' name

Hospitable

Ksenija has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2022. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2022, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Ksenija, 2022

1 in 677,000

Ksenija over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ksenija: meaning, origin, and history

Hospitable

Ancient Greek

What Ksenija means

Ksenija means “hospitable”, associated with xenía.

Origin, language, and formation

Ksenija is used in Latvian and Slovene. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Ksenija comes through Ancient Greek ξενία.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Xenia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Slovene, Ksenija is pronounced /kséːnija/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Ksenija between 2022 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2022; its best national rank was #16,612 in 2022.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ksenija?

Ksenija had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022: 1 in 677,000; 5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only: 1 in 328,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 469,366 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Ksenija sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ksenija. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ksenijas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ksenija was born before 2022 — so the typical Ksenija is around 3 today.

Median birth year: 2022; About 3 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Ksenija rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2022 (5)
Years since peak: 3; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #16,612; 2022

Spellings of Ksenija

Ksenija is not the most common spelling — Kenia is, with 85.0% against Ksenija's 0.04%.

Kenia85.0%10,216
Keniya5.7%690
Senia4.8%576
Ksenia4.5%537
Ksenija0.04%5

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Ksenija around the world

Where Ksenija ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
2007–2019
#5,591
in 2019
Ireland
2012–2012
#907
in 2012
France
2006–2006
#5,971
in 2006
South Australia
1961–1980
#634
in 1980

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Ksenija by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #16,612; 2022
Peak year: 2022; 5 that year
First recorded: 2022
Last recorded: 2022
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Ksenija

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Talaija Jadaija Lanaija Srinija Olivija Kadeija Kadaija Vilija Tonija Tynija Katija Livija Samija Manija Nikolija Shrija Lidija Denaija Arija Nataija Janaija Kenija Deaija Kseniya

Sibling names for Ksenija

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Ezra Sapphire Scout Amayah Shoshana Nila Everlee Zariyah

For a brother

Loyal Avi Rayden Zeke Gian Rishi Tripp Apollo

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