Ksenija
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ksənəʒə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ksenija is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 53rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: First recorded as a given name of Latvians during 1825–1850. Ultimately from Ancient Greek ξενία (xenía, “hospitable”). Cognate with English Xenia.
- HRCroatia1 in 765(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 176as Ксения
- BYBelarus≈1 in 288as Ксения
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ksenija itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #225 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 242 (measured from records)
- 1 in 579 (inferred from the name graph)
≈810,000 named Ксения, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ксения in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus and 1 more and Ксенія in UA Ukraine.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
First recorded as a given name of Latvians during 1825–1850. Ultimately from Ancient Greek ξενία (xenía, “hospitable”). Cognate with English Xenia.
Sources 2
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ksenija counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #53 | ≈810,000 est. | ≈1 in 176 | #32 | Ксения | 200 |
| UA Ukraine | #100 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | listed | Ксенія | 68 |
| BY Belarus | #53 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 288 | 2 | Ксения | 49 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #134 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 22K | Ксения | 51 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #107 | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Ксения | 21 |
| MD Moldova | #290 | 8,231as Xenia | 1 in 409 | 8.2K | Ksenija | 20 |
| HR Croatia | #195 | 5,526 | 1 in 765 | 5.5K | Ksenija | 64 |
| LV Latvia | #719 | 3,247 | 1 in 579 | 3.3K | Ksenija | 28 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); e-services.md — living population register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ksenija is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, a female given name from Ancient Greek
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Xenia Shestovab. 1560RUnot in their usual namemother of Tsar Mikhail Romanov
- Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russiab. 1875RUnot in their usual nameGrand Duchess of Russia (1875–1960); fourth child and elder daughter of Alexander III of Russia and Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)
- Ksenija Prohaskab. 1953HRCroatian singer and actor
- Ksenija Marinkovićb. 1966HRCroatian actress
- Kseniya Rappoportb. 1974RUnot in their usual nameRussian actress (born 1974)
- Kseniya Sobchakb. 1981RUnot in their usual nameRussian television personality and politician
- Ksenia Polikarpovab. 1990RUnot in their usual nameRussian-Israeli badminton player
- Ksenia Pervakb. 1991RUnot in their usual nameRussian tennis player
- Ksenia Makarovab. 1992RUnot in their usual namefigure skater
- Ksenia Sitnikb. 1995BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 48 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 5.5K | #193 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 4.9K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 3.3K | #168 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 3.2K | — |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 2 | #6,031 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ksenija mean, and where does it come from?
- First recorded as a given name of Latvians during 1825–1850. Ultimately from Ancient Greek ξενία (xenía, “hospitable”). Cognate with English Xenia. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- In which country does Ksenija have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 806 thousand people named Ксения in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ksenija most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ksenija is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 579 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Ksenija?
- A machine transcription gives /ksənəʒə/ (IPA) for Russian.
- Is Ksenija a male or female name?
- Ksenija is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Ksenija?
- In the etymology graph, Oksana, Zenia and Xena are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Ksenija?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 5,526 people named Ksenija in 2021, about 1 in 765 residents.
- How common is Ksenija compared with other names?
- In Russia, Ksenija is the 53rd most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ksenijaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ksenija” — the 53rd most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.