The name Ximena is of Spanish origin and is a variant of the name Jimena. It derives from the Hebrew name Simeon, which means ‘one who hears.”
Ximena is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Ximena isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Ximena ranks 129. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 14 were named Ximena. In the entire USA, approximately 33,494 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Ximena. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Ximena is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Ximena cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #114 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2018. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Ximena, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Ximena seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Ximena was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
2,004 babies were named Ximena in 2022 - that's 1 in 73,968 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Ximena ranked 137 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
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 six letters, the name Ximena is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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 Ximena 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 Ximena, you can simply say:
Xylophone
Igloo
Mouse
Elephant
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ximena
Ximena
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
X
I
M
E
N
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
I
M
E
N
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. Ximena sounds like this:
