Xena
Only about ten women in Poland carry it, so meeting one would stay with you. Greek at root, from xenia: "guest" or "stranger".
Xena Pronunciation
What Xena means
Where Xena comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Xena begins in Greek. Behind it stands xenos, the word for a stranger and, at the same time, a guest. A Greek used it for anyone who arrived from far off and knocked. From that same root grew xenia, the old code of hospitality binding a host to whoever came to the door.
In Homer, xenia governs the meeting with a stranger. Food and shelter come first, the question of a name only after. The visitor was given care because he might turn out to be someone important, or a god. To refuse offended Zeus himself, protector of guests.
The name keeps both charges.
In Polish the meaning settles as gościnna and obca, hospitable and foreign. A person called Xena answers to each: the one who comes from outside, and the door held open for her. Written on a form at the urząd, the name opens with an X, a letter that stays rare in Polish spelling. That single mark points back to xenos, stranger and guest.
How many people are named Xena
1 in 2254383 women in Poland is named Xena. 10 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #16771 among female names.
Xena as a middle name
Xena is a first name for 10 women in Poland and a middle name for another 9, a 53/47 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2674th, between Wiwien (9) and Yanet (9).
-
#2672 Wisenna9
-
#2673 Wiwien9
-
#2674 Xena9
-
#2675 Yanet9
-
#2676 Yoko9