Ksymena
Greek at root, and it carries a quiet promise: "god has heard". It stays rare in Poland, with about 400 women bearing it and only a handful of newborn girls last year.
Ksymena Pronunciation
Ksymena is pronounced ksih-ME-nah (/ksɨˈmɛna/).
What Ksymena means
Where Ksymena comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ksymena reaches Polish from Greek, and the meaning carried alongside it reads "god has heard." The name stays rare. Its variant, Xymena, keeps the same sound while borrowing an initial x that Polish spelling rarely admits.
The idea of being heard belongs to prayer rather than to grammar, and it settled on this name over time as an interpretation of what those Greek roots might hold. So the phrase "god has heard" works as a later reading of Ksymena rather than a plain dictionary entry.
A child named Ksymena grows up correcting the spelling, choosing between the k and the x on every official form at the urząd. That small negotiation is part of the name. What stays fixed is the Greek origin and the short meaning behind it, "god has heard."
When Ksymena celebrates name day
Ksymena appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 28 October.
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 Ksymena
1 in 56501 women in Poland is named Ksymena. 399 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1482 among female names.
Ksymena's popularity over time
2 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1650 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #1482 name among living women, even as it slips to #1650 among newborns.
Ksymena as a middle name
Ksymena is a first name for 399 women in Poland and a middle name for another 184, a 68/32 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 501st, between Filipina (184) and Jacqueline (183).
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#499 Jana185
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#500 Filipina184
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#501 Ksymena184
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#502 Jacqueline183
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#503 Juliana183