Xenia (name): Difference between revisions

Female given name

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; Belarusian: Аксана, Russian: Оксана), 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 Antonova (born 1990), Russian ice dancer
• Ksenia Caesar (1889 – after 1939), Russian ice skater
• Ksenia Doronina (born 1990), Russian ice skater
• Ksenia Konkina (born 2001), Russian ice dancer
• Ksenia Krasilnikova (born 1991), Russian ice skater
• Ksenia Makarova (born 1992), Russian-American ice skater
• Ksenia Monko (born 1992), Russian ice dancer
• Ksenia Ozerova (born 1991), Russian ice skater
• Ksenia Pecherkina (born 1993), Latvian ice dancer
• Ksenia Smetanenko (born 1979), Russian-Armenia ice skater
• Ksenia Stolbova (born 1992), Russian ice skater

• Ksenia Alopina (born 1992), Russian alpine ski racer
• Ksenia Chernykh (fl. 2006–2010), Russian mountain biker
• Ksenia Chibisova (born 1988), Russian judoka
• Ksenia Kablukova (born 1998), Russian ski jumper
• Ksenia Kurach (born 1997), Russian sprint canoeist
• Ksenia Ovsyannikova (born 1985), Russian wheelchair fencer
• Ksenia Parubets (born 1994), Russian volleyball player
• Ksenia Perova (born 1989), Russian archer
• Ksenia Popova (born 1988), Russian open water swimmer
• Ksenia Tikhonenko (born 1993), Russian basketball player
• Ksenia Zadorina (born 1987), Russian sprinter
• Ksenia Zakordonskaya (born 2003), Russian handballer
• Ksenia Zsikhotska (born 1989), Ukrainian dancer and choreographer

• Ksenia Anske (barn 1976), Russian-born American author of short fiction and novels
• Ksenia Goryacheva (born 1996), Russian political figure
• Ksenia Kepping (1937–2002), Russian linguist
• Ksenia Milicevic (born 1942), French painter, architect and town planner
• Ksenia Pokrovsky (1942–2013), Russian-American religious painter
• Ksenia Aleksandrovna Razumova (born 1931), Russian physicist
• Ksenia Schnaider, Ukrainian clothing designer
• Ksenia Sobchak (born 1981), Russian public figure, TV anchor, and journalist
• Ksenia Svetlova (born 1977), Israeli politician and journalist

• Kseniya Baylo (born 2005), Ukrainian diver
• Kseniya Dobrynina (born 1994), Russian racing cyclist
• Kseniya Dziatsuk (born 1986), Belarusian triple jumper
• Kseniya Grigoreva (born 1987), Uzbekistani alpine skier
• Kseniya Markitantova (born 1981), Ukrainian Paralympic archer
• Kseniya Moskvina (born 1989), Russian swimmer
• Kseniya Moustafaeva (born 1995), Belarus-born French rhythmic gymnast
• Kseniya Pantelyeyeva (born 1994), Ukrainian fencer
• Kseniya Sadouskaya (born 1991), Belarusian speed skater
• Kseniya Stankevich (born 1996), Belarusian freestyle wrestler
• Kseniya Sydorenko (born 1986), Ukrainian synchronized swimmer
• Ksenyia Tuhai (born 1995), Belarusian cyclist
• Kseniya Zikunkova (born 1979), Belarusian biathlete

• 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 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