Name Awesome

Zenia

#6,829 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Xenia

Zenia has been given to 1,770 babies in the U.S. since 1891. In 2025 it ranked #6,829 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1988, with 43 recorded.

Babies named Zenia, 2025

1 in 195,000

Zenia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zenia: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Xenia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zenia means

Zenia is a variant of Xenia.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Zenia → Xenia. The family’s meaning is “hospitable”, recorded in English with the source elements xenía.

Origin, language, and formation

Zenia is used in Danish and Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Xenia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Zenia is pronounced /ˈθenja/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,770 girls were recorded with the name Zenia between 1891 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 43 in 1988; its best national rank was #1,005 in 1891.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,160 in 2020 to #6,829 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,030 in 2015 to #6,829 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 Zenia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 94,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,829
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zenia 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zenia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zenias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zenia was born before 1989 — so the typical Zenia is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
16.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
31.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,533
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 16.3% of all recorded uses (289).

Is Zenia 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
+90
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,669
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−799
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.77×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
39.5%
Peak was 1988 (43)
Years since peak
37
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,005
1891

Spellings of Zenia

Zenia is not the most common spelling — Jenna is, with 14.3% against Zenia's 0.17%.

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 Zenia is used

Across 1910–2025, Zenia was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 153,370 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5New York1 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. Zenia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zenia around the world

Where Zenia 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
    1996–2024
    #4,844
    in 2024
  • France
    1927–1952
    #1,409
    in 1952
  • Canada
    1991–2017
    #2,944
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1965–2009
    #818
    in 2009

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.

Zenia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,829
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,669
Best rank ever
#1,005
1891
Peak year
1988
43 that year
First recorded
1891
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,770
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Zenia

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

ZenniaZennaSaniaJuniaDeniaDoniaXeniaVaniaJaniaRaniaHaniaLaniaZaniaZenaZenaidaAnniaZenithZenyaThaniaZendayaDuniaZeniahSeniaZinnia

Sibling names for Zenia

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

Explore around Zenia

Top names of 1988, Zenia's peak yearThe 1980s in fullOther names that peaked in 1891Girls' names starting with ZShort Danish Girl Names