Zenia
From Greek, a variant of Xenia meaning "guest" or "hospitality". Just 44 women in Poland carry it and no girls have been given it in years, so most Poles have never met one.
Zenia Pronunciation
Zenia is pronounced ZE-nyah (/ˈzɛɲa/).
What Zenia means
Where Zenia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zenia grows from the Greek word xenia, ξενία, the old law of hospitality. In that world a stranger at the door had claims on you. Zeus himself, called Zeus Xenios, watched over the bond between host and guest. The name holds a social idea: welcome offered to the person who arrives.
The short meaning given to Zenia is hospitality, a reading it takes straight from xenia. The literal Greek points to the guest, the foreigner, the one from elsewhere. Polish keeps this close with gość and przybysz. Read that way, Zenia names the visitor as much as the welcome.
In Polish the name has a near twin, żenia, spelled with ż. On a class register the two forms sit apart by a single diacritic. Small mark, different letter. Whatever a bearer makes of it, the root stays fixed: xenia, the guest at the threshold.
How many people are named Zenia
1 in 512360 women in Poland is named Zenia. 44 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5825 among female names.
Zenia as a middle name
Zenia is a first name for 44 women in Poland and a middle name for another 20, a 69/31 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1644th, between Yu (20) and Adelheid (19).
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#1642 Yogesh20
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#1643 Yu20
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#1644 Zenia20
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#1645 Adelheid19
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#1646 Agnès19