Given name
Ksenia
“hospitality”
Ksenia is a feminine given name. It is used in English and Polish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ksenia goes back to Latin Xenia, meaning “hospitality.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1955. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ksenia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 537
- 0 boys · 537 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 34 babies
- 2025
- 18
- #6,448 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −44%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 18 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 6,448 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 43.5% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 34 in 2016. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,698 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ksenia’s family of names
In Polish usage, Ksenia has a conventional equivalent in the English form Xenia. In Polish usage, Ksenia has a conventional equivalent in the Croatian form KSENIJA. In Polish usage, Ksenia has a conventional equivalent in the Czech form XENIE.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Ksenia has relatives in 14 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
11 related names in 14 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 17
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ksenia
- Ksenia SobchakRussian television personality and politicianborn 1981
- Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of RussiaGrand Duchess of Russia (1875–1960); fourth child and elder daughter of Alexander III of Russia and Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)
- Kseniya RappoportRussian actress (born 1974)
- Ksenia PervakRussian tennis playerborn 1991
- Ksenia Stolbovafigure skaterborn 1992
- Ksenia Makarovafigure skaterborn 1992
- Xenia FedorovaPro-Russian commentator, former News Director of RT Franceborn 1980
- Ksenia KarelinaRussian-American ballet dancer (born 1991)
- Xenia Shestovamother of Tsar Mikhail Romanov1560–1631
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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