Given name
Xenon
“from a foreign land; a Stranger”
Xenon is used as a given name. One Greek interpretation is “from a foreign land; a Stranger.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Greek interpretation is “from a foreign land; a Stranger.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Greek.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2017. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Xenon through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2017
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Xenon’s family of names
In Venetan usage, Xenon has a conventional equivalent in the English form Zeno. Xenon has a related form in Xenonn. Xenon has a related form in Xenos.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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