Xenia (variants include Ksenia, Kseniia, Ksenija, Kseniya; derived from Greek ξενία xenia, "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, Аксинья (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

Artistic gymnasts

Badminton players

Footballers (soccer players)

Ice skaters / ice dancers

Models

Singers

Tennis players

Other sports

Other non-sporting

Kseniia

Ksenija

Actresses

Singers

Track & field athletes

Other sports

Other non-sporting

Kseniya

Actresses

Footballers

Handballers

Runners / sprinters

Other sports

Other non-sporting

Xenia

Actresses

Aristocrats

Dancers

Musicians

Religious figures

Singers

Swimmers

Volleyball players

Other sports

Other non-sporting

  • Xenia, name given by Bryan Sykes to a theoretical founding ancestor of Haplogroup X (mtDNA)
  • Xenia Cage (1913–1995), American surrealist sculptor
  • Xenia Deli (born 1989), Moldovan-American model
  • Xenia Denikina (1892–1973), Russian writer
  • Xenia Dyakonova (born 1965), Russian poet and translator
  • Xenia Ghali (born 1989), Greek songwriter, record producer and disc jockey
  • Xenia Hausner (born 1951), Austrian painter and stage designer
  • Xenia Onatopp, a fictional villainess from James Bond's GoldenEye
  • Xenia de la Ossa (born 1958), Costa Rican physicist
  • Xenia Shestova (1560–1631), Russian nun and mother of Mikhail I of Russia
  • Xenia Wickett, British-American executive coach and international advisor

Other variants

See also

Notes

  1. ^ 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'.
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