Xena
Xena is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 178 births. Its best rank was 758th, in 1996.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1780.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 1996279 births
- Best rank
- #758in 1996
- Since 1992
- 3,331people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,331 girls have been named Xena in the United States since 1992, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1996, with 279 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2016, and the 2020s alone account for 32%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1996, its biggest year
Xena was the 758th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1996 were Emily, Jessica, Ashley, Sarah and Samantha. See all of 1996.
Names that rose and fell with Xena
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Infinitypeak 1997
- Celinepeak 2024
- Mileenapeak 2021
- Madissonpeak 2024
- Sapphirepeak 2022
- Bayanpeak 2024
- Demipeak 2020
- Iqrapeak 2024
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.