Xenia
Xenia was given to 58 girls in 2025, #2,931 among girls’ names; 2,937 Americans have been recorded with it since 1894 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,680 Americans named Xenia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 12 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Xenia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Xenia mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Xenia is “a female given name from Ancient Greek of mainly historical use in English.” Its etymology gives the sense “hospitable” (ξενία).
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.
/ˈziːniə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Xenia?
#2,931 among girls’ names, 2025
Xenia fell from #2,887 in 2015 to #2,931 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 34.2 to 36.1 per million.
76 babies in 2023, the peak
Xenia peaked in 2023, when 76 girls were given it, #2,394 among girls’ names. The 58 births of 2025 are 76% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 58 | #2,931 | 36.1 |
| 2024 | 47 | #3,391 | 29.0 |
| 2023 | 76 | #2,394 | 47.4 |
| 2022 | 75 | #2,444 | 45.7 |
| 2021 | 53 | #3,109 | 32.3 |
| 2020 | 54 | #3,013 | 33.4 |
| 2019 | 67 | #2,631 | 39.9 |
| 2018 | 54 | #3,048 | 31.7 |
| 2017 | 53 | #3,088 | 30.7 |
| 2016 | 54 | #3,096 | 30.5 |
Every recorded year (104)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 61 | #2,887 | 34.2 |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,261 | 19.6 |
| 2013 | 57 | #2,970 | 32.5 |
| 2012 | 53 | #3,165 | 30.1 |
| 2011 | 74 | #2,481 | 42.1 |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,467 | 26.4 |
| 2009 | 45 | #3,615 | 24.5 |
| 2008 | 44 | #3,706 | 23.3 |
| 2007 | 45 | #3,650 | 23.4 |
| 2006 | 59 | #2,937 | 31.0 |
| 2005 | 50 | #3,163 | 27.1 |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,843 | 31.0 |
| 2003 | 42 | #3,465 | 23.0 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,930 | 28.4 |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,480 | 21.7 |
| 2000 | 49 | #2,933 | 27.0 |
| 1999 | 52 | #2,698 | 29.3 |
| 1998 | 60 | #2,365 | 34.0 |
| 1997 | 68 | #2,098 | 39.1 |
| 1996 | 71 | #1,990 | 40.5 |
| 1995 | 62 | #2,182 | 35.3 |
| 1994 | 68 | #2,053 | 38.1 |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,819 | 23.8 |
| 1992 | 54 | #2,427 | 29.3 |
| 1991 | 62 | #2,155 | 33.1 |
| 1990 | 68 | #2,005 | 35.8 |
| 1989 | 64 | #1,992 | 34.7 |
| 1988 | 64 | #1,928 | 35.9 |
| 1987 | 54 | #2,063 | 31.1 |
| 1986 | 34 | #2,843 | 19.8 |
| 1985 | 39 | #2,542 | 22.7 |
| 1984 | 28 | #3,140 | 16.6 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,882 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 26 | #3,340 | 15.4 |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,734 | 13.2 |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,607 | 13.9 |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,774 | 13.1 |
| 1978 | 33 | #2,628 | 21.5 |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,264 | 15.7 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,956 | 11.6 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,769 | 12.3 |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,919 | 17.0 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,862 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 15 | #4,087 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,118 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,866 | 9.2 |
| 1969 | 10 | #5,047 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,453 | 9.8 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,793 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,735 | 7.7 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,807 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,350 | 5.8 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,643 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,256 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,844 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,164 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 11 | #4,026 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,831 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,197 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,610 | 2.6 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,547 | 5.9 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,959 | 5.3 |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,238 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,236 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,287 | 3.4 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,951 | 3.8 |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,229 | 3.8 |
| 1941 | 5 | #5,077 | 4.1 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,941 | 4.6 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,882 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,795 | 6.7 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,850 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,405 | 5.6 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,964 | 4.7 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,548 | 11.5 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,916 | 9.9 |
| 1928 | 7 | #4,186 | 6.1 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,793 | 5.0 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,608 | 4.2 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,760 | 4.1 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,635 | 7.5 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,452 | 5.7 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,752 | 4.2 |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,213 | 8.8 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,507 | 7.8 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,690 | 11.1 |
| 1916 | 10 | #3,025 | 9.6 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,429 | 8.1 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,872 | 10.5 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,698 | 8.0 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,627 | 12.5 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,794 | 21.3 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,806 | 21.4 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,481 | 26.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Xenia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Xenia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 104 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Xenia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Xenia, and how old are they?
2,680 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 2,937 Americans ever recorded as Xenia. The median Xenia alive today is 25 years old; half are between 12 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 3,606 people named Xenia (3,594 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,368 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 14 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 92 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 253 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 754 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 826 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 739 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Xenia born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 10 | #2,081 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,773 | 1.0× |
Where Xenia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Xenia is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Xenia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 7,093 babies since 1880, Xenia is the second most given (41% of them). In 2025 it was given to 58 of their 253 babies (23%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Xenia
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Xenia and names like it
- Compare Xenia and XenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sXenia peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Xenia since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Xenia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Xenia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Xenia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with XMost given first.