Xenia (name)

{{short description|Female given name}}

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| name = Xenia

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| gender = Female

| meaning = "foreigner", "outlander", "welcomed guest" "hospitality"

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| origin = Greek

| variant forms = Ksenia, Kseniia, Ksenija

| related names = Oksana, Senja

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|Czech Republic: November 27

|Finland: January 24

|Greece: January 24

|Hungary: July 30

|Poland: April 16

|Russia: February 6

|Slovakia: June 2

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Xenia (variants include Ksenia, Kseniia, Ksenija, Kseniya; derived from Greek ξενία xenia, "hospitality"){{efn|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'.}} is a female given name. The below sections list notable people with one of the variants of this given name.

Related names include Oksana ({{Langx|uk|Оксана}}; {{langx|be|Аксана}}, {{Langx|ru|Оксана}}), Ksenija (Slovenia, Croatia, Lithuania; Ксенија, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia); Kseniya ({{Langx|bg|Ксения}}); Xénia (Hungary), and Senja (Finland). In Spain, although it started to become more popular during the 1990s,{{according to whom|date=October 2022}} it appears mainly in Galician as Xenia {{IPA|pt|ˈʃenia|}}, and in Catalan as Xènia {{IPA|ca|ˈʃɛniə|}}.

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Kseniya

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Xenia

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  • 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

  • All pages with titles starting with: {{look from|Ksenia||Ksenia}}, {{look from|Kseniia||Kseniia}}, {{look from|Ksenija||Ksenija}}, {{look from|Kseniya||Kseniya}}, {{look from|Xenia||Xenia}}
  • All pages with titles containing: {{intitle|Ksenia|Ksenia}}, {{intitle|Kseniia|Kseniia}}, {{intitle|Ksenija|Ksenija}}, {{intitle|Kseniya|Kseniya}}, {{intitle|Xenia|Xenia}}
  • Xenia (disambiguation)
  • Xena (disambiguation)

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