In 2025, 58 US girls were named Xenia, making it the 2,931st most common girls’ name of the year, up 460 places from #3,391 in 2024. That is 11 more than the 47 girls named Xenia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,482, reached in 1894. The most girls given the name in a single year was 76, in 2023. For comparison, it was #2,887 in 2015 and #3,961 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Xenia in 104 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1894 with 6 babies. In all, 2,937 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 608 babies named Xenia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 591 US girls were named Xenia; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 76. In 2025 that was about 1 in 27,712 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Xenia ranked highest in California in 2025, at #2,081 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Xena (3,513 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Xeniyah, Xeniah and Xinia are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.