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Xana

#6,098 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Alexandra

Xana has been given to 176 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #6,098 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Xana, 2025

1 in 166,000

Xana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Xana: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Alexandra

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Xana means

Xana is a diminutive of Alexandra.

Origin, language, and formation

Xana is used in Asturian and Portuguese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alexandra.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Asturian, Xana is pronounced /ˈʃana/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 176 girls were recorded with the name Xana between 1993 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2025; its best national rank was #6,098 in 2025.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #14,408 in 2015 to #6,098 in 2025.

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 Xana?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 80,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,098
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Xana 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 2025 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Xana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Xanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Xana was born before 2011 — so the typical Xana is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
34.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
65.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
176
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 34.1% of all recorded uses (60).

Is Xana 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
+2,817
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+8,310
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.86×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (20)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,098
2025

Spellings of Xana

Xana is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 12.9% against Xana's <0.01%.

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.

Xana around the world

Where Xana 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
    1998–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • France
    2003–2025
    #5,854
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1980–1980
    #440
    in 1980

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

Xana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,098
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#6,098
2025
Peak year
2025
20 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
176
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Xana

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

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Sibling names for Xana

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

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