Xenia (variants include Ksenia, Kseniia, Ksenija, Kseniya; derived from
Greekξενίαxenia, "hospitality")[a] is a female
given name. The below sections list notable people with one of the variants of this given name.
Related names include Oksana (
Ukrainian: Оксана, Ксенія, (
Belarusian: Ксенiя, Аксана), Ксения (Russia), Ksenija (Slovenia, Croatia, Lithuania; Ксенија, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia); Kseniya (
Bulgarian: Ксения); Xénia (Hungary), and Senja (Finland). In Spain, although it started to become more popular during the 1990s,[according to whom?] it appears mainly in
Galician as Xenia[ˈʃenia], and in
Catalan as Xènia[ˈʃɛniə].
Ksenia
Actresses
Ksenia Alfyorova (born 1974), Bulgarian-born actress and television presenter in Russia
^Other sources point the word ξένος [ksénos], 'foreigner', as the origin of the name. This would be equivalent to the Latin name
Barbara which also means 'foreigner'.
Xenia (variants include Ksenia, Kseniia, Ksenija, Kseniya; derived from
Greekξενίαxenia, "hospitality")[a] is a female
given name. The below sections list notable people with one of the variants of this given name.
Related names include Oksana (
Ukrainian: Оксана, Ксенія, (
Belarusian: Ксенiя, Аксана), Ксения (Russia), Ksenija (Slovenia, Croatia, Lithuania; Ксенија, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia); Kseniya (
Bulgarian: Ксения); Xénia (Hungary), and Senja (Finland). In Spain, although it started to become more popular during the 1990s,[according to whom?] it appears mainly in
Galician as Xenia[ˈʃenia], and in
Catalan as Xènia[ˈʃɛniə].
Ksenia
Actresses
Ksenia Alfyorova (born 1974), Bulgarian-born actress and television presenter in Russia
^Other sources point the word ξένος [ksénos], 'foreigner', as the origin of the name. This would be equivalent to the Latin name
Barbara which also means 'foreigner'.