Xenia is a first name for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Xenia is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 girls have been named Xenia. In the SmartGenius ranking, Xenia is #2,663 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Xenia.
If your name is Xenia your parents may be very proud to let their daughter swim against the tide: The name Xenia never ranked higher than position 1,244 in our statistics, and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea of naming their daughter Xenia. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1894 to choose the name more often than usual - only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Xenia because that was a veeeeery long time ago - unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in the neighborhood.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Xenia was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As in the last century, Xenia still proves to be exceptional. Even in 2022, the name was given very rarely - in fact, only 74 times in the entire U.S. So, a Xenia from 2022 will need very good binoculars to spot the next namesake of the same age.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Xenia in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 1,024 women and girls named Xenia, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 1,024 women and girls named Xenia live in no more than 7 different states, including for example Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois and New York. In all other 42 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Xenia. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Xenia lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Xenia and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Xenia relative to its female population is California. And even there, only one in 29,946 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Xenia.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter X is very rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 0.3% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. Only the letter U is even rarer as the first letter of girls' names. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A and S.
With five letters, the name Xenia is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 0.3% of all girls' names starting with an X, all other letters occur on average more than ten times as often as the X. Moreover, of the comparatively few girls' names that start with X, most of them aren't very common either - the most popular one currently is Ximena.
If your name is Xenia and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Xenia, you can simply say:
Xylophone
Elephant
Nut
Igloo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Xenia
Xenia
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
X
E
N
I
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
X
E
N
I
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Xenia sounds like this:
