Girl · Greek
Ksenia
Say it: KSEH-nyah
Meaning
From Greek xenia 'hospitality', from xenos 'guest, stranger'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
An Orthodox saint's name in Russia since medieval times; Ukrainian Oksana grew out of a folk form of it.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 467 babies given this name since 1955
- At its height in 2016, about 1 in 52,000 girls
- 19 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- The Renaissance1400 to 1600
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Kseniya, Ксения, Kseniia
| Polish | Ksenia |
|---|---|
| Ukrainian | Kseniia |
| Serbian | Ksenija |
| Czech | Xenie |
| Greek | Xenia |
Famous bearers
- Saint Xenia of Petersburg
- Ksenia Godunova, daughter of Tsar Boris
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Where this comes from
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- Calendars of saints and name days
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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