Xenia
loc · Latin script
Meaning: The concept of hospitality to strangers (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 41 countries
/ˈziːniə/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Xenia is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 53rd most common given name. Xenia is also written Ксения in Cyrillic, Ξένια in Greek and 제니아 in Korean (Hangul).
- MDMoldova1 in 409(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 4.9K
- DKDenmark1 in 8.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Xenia itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #225 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 242 (measured from records)
- 1 in 409 (inferred from the name graph)
≈840,000 named Ксения, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Xenia in other scripts: Cyrillic, Latin, Greek and 3 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Ксения in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus and 1 more, Ksenija in HR Croatia, MD Moldova, LV Latvia and Ксенія in UA Ukraine.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Xenia
- English:/ˈziːniə/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)The concept of hospitality to strangers.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Xenia, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Xenia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #53 | ≈840,000 est. | ≈1 in 171 | register #32 | Ксения | 200 |
| UA Ukraine | #100 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | listed | Ксенія | 68 |
| BY Belarus | #53 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 303 | 2 | Ксения | 49 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #134 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 22K | Ксения | 51 |
| TJ Tajikistan | #19 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 951 | — | Ксения | 6 |
| MD Moldova | #290 | 8,231 | 1 in 409 | 8.2K | Ksenija | 20 |
| HR Croatia | #195 | 5,526as Ksenija | 1 in 765 | 5.5K | Ksenija | 64 |
| LV Latvia | #719 | 3,247as Ksenija | 1 in 579 | 3.3K | Ksenija | 28 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); e-services.md — living population register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Xenia is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Se Oksana.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In English, city, OH
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In French, Forme slave d’Eugénie; d’origine grecque, signifie « bien née ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In English, Greek; "stranger" or "guest"
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In German, weibl. Vom., der auf einen römischen
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russiab. 1875RUGrand Duchess of Russia (1875–1960); fourth child and elder daughter of Alexander III of Russia and Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)
- Kseniya Rappoportb. 1974RUnot in their usual nameRussian actress (born 1974)
- Ksenia Solob. 1987LVnot in their usual nameLatvian-Canadian actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)70 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 41 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Xenia mean, and where does it come from?
- The concept of hospitality to strangers. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Xenia?
- In English /ˈziːniə/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people named Xenia?
- Mondonomo estimates about 840 thousand people named Ксения in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Xenia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Xenia is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 409 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Xenia?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 8,231 people named Xenia, about 1 in 409 residents.
- How common is Xenia compared with other names?
- In Russia, Xenia is the 53rd most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/xeniaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Xenia” — the 53rd most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.