Ximena
Ximena was given to 1,686 girls in 2025, #183 among girls’ names; 39,669 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 39,400 Americans named Ximena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ximena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ximena mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ximena is “a female given name from Spanish or Basque.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ximena?
#183 among girls’ names, 2025
Ximena fell from #125 in 2015 to #183 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 1.5 to 1.0 per 1,000.
2,686 babies in 2016, the peak
Ximena peaked in 2016, when 2,686 babies were given it (2,680 girls, #120 among girls’ names). The 1,686 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,686 | #183 | 1.0 |
| 2024 | 1,750 | #174 | 1.1 |
| 2023 | 1,812 | #158 | 1.1 |
| 2022 | 2,009 | #144 | 1.2 |
| 2021 | 2,000 | #138 | 1.2 |
| 2020 | 2,037 | #130 | 1.3 |
| 2019 | 2,187 | #129 | 1.3 |
| 2018 | 2,571 | #118 | 1.5 |
| 2017 | 2,547 | #121 | 1.5 |
| 2016 | 2,680 | #120 | 1.5 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2,602 | #125 | 1.5 |
| 2014 | 2,341 | #143 | 1.3 |
| 2013 | 1,960 | #162 | 1.1 |
| 2012 | 1,463 | #216 | 0.83 |
| 2011 | 1,465 | #216 | 0.83 |
| 2010 | 1,210 | #274 | 0.68 |
| 2009 | 1,052 | #313 | 0.57 |
| 2008 | 1,012 | #333 | 0.54 |
| 2007 | 885 | #370 | 0.46 |
| 2006 | 815 | #392 | 0.43 |
| 2005 | 891 | #353 | 0.48 |
| 2004 | 770 | #397 | 0.42 |
| 2003 | 564 | #509 | 0.31 |
| 2002 | 424 | #604 | 0.24 |
| 2001 | 263 | #873 | 0.15 |
| 2000 | 125 | #1,478 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 78 | #2,013 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,492 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 59 | #2,304 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 40 | #3,018 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 43 | #2,839 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,885 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,662 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 38 | #3,085 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,201 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,515 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 10 | #8,017 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,647 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,762 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,876 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,288 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,285 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #12,028 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,206 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,795 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #12,126 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,306 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,552 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #9,048 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,407 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,644 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,536 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,758 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,604 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ximena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ximena has been given almost only to girls: 13 boys in 54 years of records.
Girls and boys named Ximena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ximena, and how old are they?
39,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 39,669 Americans ever recorded as Ximena. The median Ximena alive today is 10 years old; half are between 6 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 24,081 people named Ximena (24,004 women and girls, 77 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 28,691 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 62 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 290 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 11,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 28,000 |
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 Ximena born?
The states with the most babies named Ximena are California, Texas and Arizona, with 57% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 460 | #54 | 2.2× |
| Texas | 413 | #62 | 2.6× |
| Arizona | 77 | #73 | 2.2× |
| Illinois | 71 | #141 | 1.3× |
| Colorado | 52 | #99 | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 51 | #215 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 43 | #442 | 0.4× |
| Washington | 42 | #175 | 0.9× |
| New York | 40 | #441 | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 38 | #268 | 0.7× |
Where Ximena is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ximena is most over-represented in Texas: since 1966 it was given 2.6 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 Ximena 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 39,976 babies since 1880, Ximena is the most given (99% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,686 of their 1,692 babies (100%), again the 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 Ximena
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 Ximena and names like it
- Compare Ximena and XimennaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sXimena peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ximena since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Ximena: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Ximena.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ximena alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with XMost given first.