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Xenia

#2,931 in 2025Girls' name

Hospitable

Xenia has been given to 2,937 babies in the U.S. since 1894. In 2025 it ranked #2,931 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 76 recorded.

Babies named Xenia, 2025

1 in 57,200

Xenia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Xenia: meaning, origin, and history

Hospitable

Ancient Greek

What Xenia means

Xenia means “hospitable”, associated with xenía.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From the assumed name of a fifth-century saint venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church, Latin Xenia, from Ancient Greek ξενία (xenía, “hospitable”). Doublet of Oksana.

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Xenia is used in English, Danish, German and Spanish. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Xenia comes through Latin Xenia and Ancient Greek ξενία.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Oksana.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Xenia is pronounced /ˈziːniə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,937 girls were recorded with the name Xenia between 1894 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 76 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,481 in 1894.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,013 in 2020 to #2,931 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,887 in 2015 to #2,931 in 2025.

How common is Xenia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 57,200
58 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 27,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,931
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
39,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Xenia 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 39,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Xenia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Xenias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Xenia was born before 1998 — so the typical Xenia is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
20.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
46.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,717
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 20.7% of all recorded uses (608).

Is Xenia 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
+460
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+82
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−44
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.95×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
76.3%
Peak was 2023 (76)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,481
1894

Spellings of Xenia

Xenia is not the most common spelling — Jenna is, with 15.9% against Xenia's 0.31%.

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 Xenia is used

Across 1910–2025, Xenia was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 56,458 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2Arizona1 in 50,000
  3. 3New York1 in 50,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 50,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7North Carolina1 in —

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. Xenia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Xenia around the world

Where Xenia 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
    #1,809
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2018–2019
    #871
    in 2019
  • France
    1926–2022
    #5,721
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1996–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1946–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Xenia

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

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.

Xenia in other languages

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

XenaKseniaKsenijaKseniyaXenieAksiniya

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

Xenia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,931
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 82
Best rank ever
#1,481
1894
Peak year
2023
76 that year
First recorded
1894
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,937
Count in 2025
58

Names similar to Xenia

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

XenaVaniaJaniaRaniaSaniaZeniaJuniaZinniaDeniaAniaDoniaDaniaHaniaLaniaZaniaKeniaAnniaThaniaDuniaSeniaMilaniaMelaniaGeniaJesenia

Names with a curve like Xenia

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

BradySaharNikaTovaNohemiStormieIndiraNubiaMarielleArynElisiaKateri

Sibling names for Xenia

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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