Xena

#1,270 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly hospitable

Xena has been given to 3,513 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #1,270 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 279 recorded.

Babies named Xena, 2025

1 in 18,700

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Xena: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly hospitable

Ancient Greek

What Xena means

Xena may mean “hospitable”, associated with xenía.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Possibly a variant of Xenia, from Latin Xenia, from Ancient Greek ξενία (xenía, “hospitable”), the assumed name of a fifth-century saint venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church, from ξένος (xénos, “foreign, strange”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Xena (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Xena is used in English. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Xena comes through Latin Xenia and Ancient Greek ξενία.

Xena is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Xenia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Xena is pronounced /ˈziː.nə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,513 girls were recorded with the name Xena between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 279 in 1996; its best national rank was #758 in 1996.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,129 in 2020 to #1,270 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,078 in 2015 to #1,270 in 2025.

How common is Xena?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 18,700; 177 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 9,080; 0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #1,270; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 12,984 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Xena 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 12,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Xena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Xenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Xena was born before 2017 — so the typical Xena is around 8 today.

Median birth year: 2017; About 8 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 35.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 71.6%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 3,513; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 35.5% of all recorded uses (1,248).

Is Xena 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: +21; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: −141; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: +808; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.86×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 63.4%; Peak was 1996 (279)
Years since peak: 29; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 21.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #758; 1996

Spellings of Xena

Xena is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 20.4% against Xena's 0.08%.

Anna20.4%914,859
Edna6.6%295,116
Tina6.5%292,146
Eva6.3%284,761
Dana4.3%193,555
Gina3.4%153,057
Vera3.3%149,456
Jenna3.3%148,587

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.

Where Xena is used

Across 2016–2025, Xena was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 5,000 girls, against 1 in 9,107 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 33,333).

320 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Arizona1 in 5,000
2California1 in 6,250
3Florida1 in 7,143
4Pennsylvania1 in 7,143
5Missouri1 in 7,692
6New York1 in 7,692
7Texas1 in 7,692
8Georgia1 in 8,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Xena around the world

Where Xena 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
1996–2025
#1,454
in 2025
France
1997–2025
#5,065
in 2025
Canada
1996–2024
#1,542
in 2024
South Australia
1981–2005
#775
in 2005

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

Notable people named Xena

People whose public names include Xena, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

Xena WimmenhoeveBasketball player
b. 2000

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Xena in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Xena. Linked forms have their own page here.

Zena Xenia Ksenia KsenijaXenieXénia

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Xena by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #1,270
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 141
Best rank ever: #758; 1996
Peak year: 1996; 279 that year
First recorded: 1992
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 3,513
Count in 2025: 177

Names similar to Xena

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

Xenia Sena Zena Kena Ena Mena Tena Reena Irena Leena Jena Neena Adena Vena Karena Raena Meena Nena Sirena Malena Bena Arlena Kalena Celena

Names with a curve like Xena

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Xena, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

Storm Gianni Mileena Indigo Sapphire Adara Andie Sterling Amethyst Kaira Amal Aleia

Sibling names for Xena

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

Kaycee Mireya Micaela Khadijah Katerina Carson Selina Yasmeen

For a brother

Dangelo Bernardo Syed Deion Coleman Keenan Tariq Darien

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