Ksenia
A Greek name built on the word for guest, carrying the sense of hospitality. Most Poles have never met one: it sits well down the list and holds a small, steady place among girls born today.
Ksenia Pronunciation
Ksenia is pronounced KSE-nyah (/ˈksɛɲa/).
What Ksenia means
Where Ksenia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ksenia comes from Greek, from xenía, the word for hospitality, and behind it xénos, the guest or the stranger at the door. The same root sits inside xenophobia and xenon. A name built from welcome, then. In Polish the sense lands on one word, gościnność.
The variant kseniya travels east and keeps the Greek shape under a Slavic spelling. Same name, different letters.
One bearer fixed it in memory. Xenia of Saint Petersburg, an Orthodox saint known in Poland as Ksenia Petersburska, gave away her house after her husband died and spent decades walking the streets of the city in his old uniform. A woman who lived among strangers wore a name that means the welcoming of them. Her feast falls on 6 February, and Ksenia keeps her imieniny that day.
On a class register the name is short. Five letters, and the meaning is a guest at the door.
When Ksenia celebrates name day
Ksenia appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 24 January.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Ksenia
1 in 6858 women in Poland is named Ksenia. 3,287 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #569 among female names.
Ksenia's popularity over time
25 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #474 among newborns. It has been stable for a decade.
Where Ksenia is most popular
Ksenia is most popular in Podlaskie, 387% above the national average (20 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+83%) and Warmian-Masurian (+56%). It is least common in Łódź and Lublin, 75% and 69% below average respectively.
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Podlaskie20 girls born+387%
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Lower Silesian18 girls born+83%
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Warmian-Masurian7 girls born+56%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian8 girls born+17%
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Subcarpathian8 girls born+6%
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Masovian22 girls born−1%
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Silesian14 girls born−2%
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Lubusz3 girls born−3%
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Greater Poland12 girls born−11%
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Opole2 girls born−31%
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Lesser Poland9 girls born−37%
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West Pomeranian3 girls born−43%
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Pomeranian5 girls born−46%
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Lublin2 girls born−69%
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Łódź2 girls born−75%
Ksenia as a middle name
Ksenia is a first name for 3,287 women in Poland and a middle name for another 1,001, a 77/23 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 248th, between Mirela (1,040) and Lea (988).
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#246 Andrea1,079
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#247 Mirela1,040
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#248 Ksenia1,001
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#249 Lea988
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#250 Gaja975