Xenia
Xenia is a girl name of Greek origin, meaning Hospitality; welcoming.
What Xenia means
Hospitality; welcoming.
Xenia sits at 5 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Xenia comes from
Greek names often reach back to mythology, philosophy, or the early Church. They tend to be transparently meaningful in the original: many are compounds you can still take apart into their two halves.
Xenia is recorded as Greek in origin. Browse other Greek names.
How popular is Xenia?
Xenia does not currently chart in the top 100 girl names. Rankings move constantly, and names can spend decades out of the lists before returning — so this says more about the present moment than about the name itself.
The character of Xenia
Two ideas meet in Xenia: grace and gentleness and Gentle. Names carrying more than one theme tend to be the ones that suit a wider range of siblings.
Names like Xenia
These share Xenia's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Melina — Honey; sweet.
- Caoimhe — Gentle, beautiful and precious.
- Milica — Gentle and gracious.
- Sadhbh — Sweetness and goodness.
- Tanvi — Slender and delicate.
- Agatha — Good and honourable.
- Calliope — Beautiful voice; muse of poetry.
- Cosima — Order; beauty; the universe.
- Damaris — Gentle; a calf.
- Effie — Well-spoken; pleasant.
- Eudora — Good gift.
- Lois — Most desirable; superior.