Meaning not yet researched.
Xena: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 177 in 2025. Its best rank was #758 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #758 in 1996; #1,270 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Xena in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,270 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #758.
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Xena: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 177 girls in 2025. Peak: #758 in 1996 · most girls in one year: 279 (1996).
In 2025, 177 US girls were named Xena, making it the 1,270th most common girls’ name of the year, up 21 places from #1,291 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 180 girls named Xena in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #758, reached in 1996. That year also had the most girls given the name: 279. For comparison, it was #2,078 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Xena in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1992 with 5 babies. In all, 3,513 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,248 babies named Xena.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,883 US girls were named Xena; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 251. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,081 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Xena ranked highest in Wisconsin in 2025, at #788 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Zena (5,986 babies since 1880) and Xenia (2,937 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ksenia, Xienna and Xina are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ksenia (537), Xienna (93), Xina (51), Xenna (22), Xyana (12), Xenaya (6), Ksenija (5).
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 Xena in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | 6 | #788 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #869 | — |
| Arizona | 7 | #902 | — |
| Missouri | 6 | #920 | — |
| California | 27 | #1,024 | #2,030 |
| Florida | 12 | #1,237 | #2,393 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,237 | — |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,303 | — |
| Texas | 18 | #1,403 | #1,616 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,774 | — |
| New York | 7 | #1,824 | #1,950 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 177 | #1,270 | — | — |
| 2024 | 180 | #1,291 | — | — |
| 2023 | 235 | #1,063 | — | — |
| 2022 | 251 | #1,025 | — | — |
| 2021 | 191 | #1,235 | — | — |
| 2020 | 214 | #1,129 | — | — |
| 2019 | 193 | #1,217 | — | — |
| 2018 | 174 | #1,312 | — | — |
| 2017 | 157 | #1,447 | — | — |
| 2016 | 111 | #1,864 | — | — |
| 2015 | 95 | #2,078 | — | — |
| 2014 | 73 | #2,495 | — | — |
| 2013 | 69 | #2,595 | — | — |
| 2012 | 52 | #3,208 | — | — |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,461 | — | — |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,391 | — | — |
| 2009 | 29 | #5,092 | — | — |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,340 | — | — |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,940 | — | — |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,567 | — | — |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,237 | — | — |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,380 | — | — |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,727 | — | — |
| 2002 | 38 | #3,594 | — | — |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,920 | — | — |
| 2000 | 75 | #2,157 | — | — |
| 1999 | 104 | #1,619 | — | — |
| 1998 | 173 | #1,117 | — | — |
| 1997 | 275 | #766 | — | — |
| 1996 | 279 | #758 | — | — |
| 1995 | 73 | #1,919 | — | — |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,786 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,740 | — | — |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,560 | — | — |
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).