Oksana

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Girl · Greek, through Ukrainian

Oksana

Say it: ohk-SAH-nah

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Meaning

A Ukrainian folk form of Kseniya, ultimately from Greek xenia 'hospitality'.

Certainscholars agree on this meaning.

Long a typical Ukrainian village form, it spread across the Soviet Union in the 20th century.

Its wave through time

Rare in the records

In the United States

953 babies given this name since 1950
At its height in 1995, about 1 in 23,100 girls
13 babies in 2020

Through the ages

Used by

Ukrainian Russian

The family of the name

Other spellings: Оксана

Russian	Oksana
Polish	Oksana

Famous bearers

Oksana Baiul, Ukrainian figure skater

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Where this comes from

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United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.

Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.