Kseniya
From Greek, where the root means "hospitality". Fewer than 2,000 Polish women carry it, rare enough that most people here have never met one, and newborns almost never get it now.
Kseniya Pronunciation
Kseniya is pronounced kse-NYIH-ah (/ksɛˈɲɨa/).
What Kseniya means
Where Kseniya comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Kseniya comes from Greek. The root is xenía, hospitality, and behind it stands xénos, the word for a stranger or a guest. Ancient Greek treated the welcome owed to a visitor as a near-sacred duty, and the name gathers that duty into a single word.
In Russian tradition it settled as Ksenia, the variant most Polish readers will recognize. Its best-known bearer is Ksenia of Saint Petersburg, an eighteenth-century holy fool who gave away her house and wandered the city in her late husband's clothes. The Orthodox Church later canonized her, and her name day now keeps her in the calendar.
The English gloss is short. Hospitality; in Polish, gościnność. Open a class register in a Polish school and Kseniya sits a little apart from the Katarzynas around it. Whatever else it carries, the name still points back to the guest at the door and the welcome owed to a stranger, its plainest sense: gościnność.
How many people are named Kseniya
1 in 12133 women in Poland is named Kseniya. 1,858 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #727 among female names.
Kseniya's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Kseniya as a middle name
Kseniya is a first name for 1,858 women in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 100/0 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 4951st, between Kristiana (3) and Kunigunda (3).
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#4949 Kristi3
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#4950 Kristiana3
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#4951 Kseniya3
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#4952 Kunigunda3
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#4953 Kupakwashe3