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Variations
Maschili: Xenio, Senio

Variants in other languages

Belarusian: Аксана (Aksana), Ксен)я (Ksenija)
Bulgarian: Аксиния (Aksinija)
Catalan: Xènia
Czech: Xenie
Croatian: Ksenija
Finnish: Senja
Ancient Greek: (Xenia)
Males: γενιος (Xenios)
Byzantine Greek: αενη (Xene)
Modern Greek: βενία (Xenia), 4-0ένη (Xenī)
Males: γένιος (Xenios)
English: Zenia
Latin: Xenia
Males: Xenius
Latvian: Ksenija
Macedon: Ксениةа (Ksenija)
Polish: Ksenia
Russian: Ксения (Ksenija), Аксинья (Aksin'ja), Оксана (Oksana)
Mortgage: Ксюша (Ksjuša)
Serbs: Ксениةа (Ksenija)
Slovak: Xénia
Slovenian: Ksenija
Spanish: Xenia
Ukrainian: Оксана (Oksana), Ксен)я (Ksenija)
Hungarian: Xénia, Oxána, Szénia

Origin and diffusion
It takes the name of xenia (in ancient Greek ξενία), which at the Hellenians was the sacred concept of hospitality (in addition to being an epithet of the goddess Athena), and is therefore interpreted as "hospitality" or as "hospitable"; etymologically comes from ξένος, xénos, "guest", "foreigner".

The name was brought by a holy martyr of the 5th century, very venerated in the Eastern Churches, and therefore had considerable fortune in the Christian East, especially in Russia: it was adopted, among other things, by the Romanovs, to which probably the use of the name outside of Russia and Ukraine. In Italy it enjoys little use, and is attested with greater frequency to the North and the Center; this diffusion, partly attributable to classical memory or the weak cult of Saint Xenia, is actually mainly due to the popularity of actresses or theatrical or foreign literary works. This name was also attributed to the American city of Xenia, Ohio, to suggest cordiality and hospitality.

Onomaly
On January 24th in honor of Saint Xenia (or Eusebia), a virgin of Milasa, the Russian Orthodox Church also recalls, on February 6, Saint Ksenija of Petersburg, "stolta in Cristo".

Persons

Xenia Assenza, German actress
Xenia Goodwin, Australian actress and dancer
Xenia Knoll, Swiss tennis player
Xenia Pörtner, German actress
Xenia Silberberg, Italian antifascist and writer
Xenia Stad-de Jong, Dutch speeder
Xenia Valderi, Italian actress

Variant Ksenia

Ksenia Milicevic, painter, French architect and urbanist
Ksenia Palkina, tennis kirghiza
Ksenia Solo, Canadian actress

Variant Ksenija

Ksenija, Princess of Montenegro
Ksenija of Petersburg, Russian religious
Ksenija Dudkina, Russian gymnast
Ksenija Kovalenko, Azerbaijani volleyball player
Ksenija Lykina, Russian tennis player
Ksenija Makarova, Russian ice skater
Ksenija Milevskaja, Belarusian tennis player
Ksenija Pervak, Russian tennis player
Ksenija Prohaska, Croatian actress and singer
Ksenija Aleksandrovna Rappoport, Russian actress
Ksenija Aleksandrovna Romanova, daughter of Alexander III of Russia
Ksenija Georgievna Romanova, daughter of Georgij Michajlovič Romanov
Ksenija Sankovič, Belarusian gymnast
Ksenija Semënova, Russian gymnast
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