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Xenia

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Female Female Name

Usage

Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Latin spelling of the Greek name Ξενια (Xenia)

Greek ξενια (xenia) = 'hospitality' [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Also short form of names containing that element, e.g. Polyxenia (see Polyxene) [5]

Related Names

Ksenia ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Ksenija ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Xenia ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish

See also Aksinja, Oksana, Senja

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Xenia
Genitive: Xenias
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Xenia
Genitive: Xenian
Partitive: Xeniaa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Xenia
Genitive: Xenias
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Xenia
Genitive: Xenias

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 73 people were named Xenia (percentage of first or only given name: 22 %) [6]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Denmark Denmark[7]
672
n.a.
 672
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
 497
n.a.
 497 0 0
Sweden Sweden[9]
81 213 81 213 0 0
Iceland Iceland[10]
3 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[11]
35
n.a.
 35
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[12]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Xenia.


References

  1. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  7. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  12. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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