Oksanna
Fewer than a dozen women in Poland carry this spelling: a rare variant of Oksana that most Poles will never meet. The Slavic name traces back to the Greek idea of hospitality, of being open to others.
Oksanna Pronunciation
Oksanna is pronounced ok-SAHN-nah (/ɔkˈsanna/).
What Oksanna means
Where Oksanna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Oksanna comes to Poland as a Ukrainian name built on a Greek word, xenia, meaning hospitality, the welcome a household owes a guest. The Slavic form took that idea of the open door and made it a person's name. In Polish the sense reads as gościnna, otwarta na innych.
The more common spelling is Oksana. Mikołaj Gogol gave the name a famous bearer in his story about Christmas Eve, where Oksana is the proud village beauty the blacksmith Wakuła tries to win. Readers across the Slavic world met the name there.
Oksanna, with the doubled n, is the rarer written form. It sounds the same. On a Polish class register it sits among the Oksanas, and Oksanka slips out as the diminutive at home. The root still means what it meant in Greek: the guest made welcome.
How many people are named Oksanna
1 in 2504870 women in Poland is named Oksanna. 9 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #17711 among female names.
Oksanna as a middle name
Oksanna is a first name for 9 women in Poland and a middle name for another 4, a 69/31 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 4324th, between Nóra (4) and Olenia (4).
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#4322 Nélida4
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#4323 Nóra4
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#4324 Oksanna4
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#4325 Olenia4
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#4326 Oliviia4