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Xenia (name)

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Xenia
GenderFemale
Name day
  • Czech Republic: November 27
  • Finland: January 24
  • Greece: January 24
  • Hungary: July 30
  • Poland: April 16
  • Slovakia: June 2
Origin
Word/nameGreek
Meaning"foreigner", "outlander", "welcomed guest" "hospitality"
Other names
Variant form(s)Ksenia, Kseniia, Ksenija
Related namesOksana, Senja

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 (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[edit]

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Badminton players[edit]

Footballers (soccer players)[edit]

Ice skaters / ice dancers[edit]

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Tennis players[edit]

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Other non-sporting[edit]

Kseniia[edit]

Ksenija[edit]

Actresses[edit]

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Track & field athletes[edit]

Other sports[edit]

Other non-sporting[edit]

Kseniya[edit]

Actresses[edit]

Footballers[edit]

Handballers[edit]

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Other sports[edit]

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Xenia[edit]

Actresses[edit]

Aristocrats[edit]

Dancers[edit]

Musicians[edit]

Religious figures[edit]

Singers[edit]

Swimmers[edit]

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Other variants[edit]

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  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'.