Xen is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Xion, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Xen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 14 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,987 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,987 in 2022; #6,431 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Xen in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,431 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #3,987.
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Xen: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 14 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,987 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 28 (2022).
In 2025, 14 US boys were named Xen, making it the 6,431st most common boys’ name of the year, down 999 places from #5,432 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 18 boys named Xen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,987, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 28. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Xen in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #13,503, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 7. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Xen in 11 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2001 with 5 babies. In all, 159 US babies have been given the name, 11% of them girls and 89% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 118 babies named Xen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 122 US boys were named Xen; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 28. In 2025 that was about 1 in 122,005 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Xion (1,069 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Xen in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).