Xena
#1,261 for girls in 2025, 177 births
- Peak · girls
- 1996 · 279 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,513since 1992
Xena over time
Rank among girls' names. Xena has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,261 | 177 |
| 2024 | #1,284 | 180 |
| 2023 | #1,062 | 235 |
| 2022 | #1,024 | 251 |
| 2021 | #1,229 | 191 |
| 2020 | #1,126 | 214 |
| 2019 | #1,209 | 193 |
| 2018 | #1,310 | 174 |
| 2017 | #1,441 | 157 |
| 2016 | #1,857 | 111 |
| 2015 | #2,060 | 95 |
| 2014 | #2,469 | 73 |
| 2013 | #2,568 | 69 |
| 2012 | #3,169 | 52 |
| 2011 | #4,353 | 33 |
| 2010 | #4,306 | 34 |
| 2009 | #4,931 | 29 |
| 2008 | #6,130 | 22 |
| 2007 | #4,808 | 30 |
| 2006 | #4,463 | 32 |
| 2005 | #5,999 | 20 |
| 2004 | #7,077 | 16 |
| 2003 | #3,655 | 38 |
| 2002 | #3,523 | 38 |
| 2001 | #2,881 | 50 |
| 2000 | #2,141 | 75 |
| 1999 | #1,612 | 104 |
| 1998 | #1,112 | 173 |
| 1997 | #765 | 275 |
| 1996 | #757 | 279 |
| 1995 | #1,900 | 73 |
| 1994 | #8,122 | 10 |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Xena! It came in at #13,317, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1992–1993, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Xena is popular in 1996
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#510 · 1 in 3,366
- Tennessee#527 · 1 in 3,702
- Maryland#542 · 1 in 3,530
- North Carolina#550 · 1 in 3,935
- Arizona#565 · 1 in 3,163
Best ever in a state: #381 in Nevada, 1997.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #510 | 31 | 1 in 3,366 |
| Tennessee | #527 | 8 | 1 in 3,702 |
| Maryland | #542 | 7 | 1 in 3,530 |
| North Carolina | #550 | 10 | 1 in 3,935 |
| Arizona | #565 | 9 | 1 in 3,163 |
| Alabama | #618 | 5 | 1 in 4,113 |
| Pennsylvania | #660 | 11 | 1 in 5,504 |
| Illinois | #661 | 15 | 1 in 4,763 |
| Texas | #665 | 31 | 1 in 4,502 |
| Michigan | #669 | 10 | 1 in 5,205 |
| New Jersey | #691 | 8 | 1 in 5,292 |
| California | #725 | 44 | 1 in 5,222 |
| Florida | #791 | 12 | 1 in 6,061 |
| Ohio | #913 | 7 | 1 in 8,875 |
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See more about Xena
- 23 spots since 2024 (#1,284 → #1,261)
- 135 spots since 2020 (#1,126 → #1,261)
- 799 spots since 2015 (#2,060 → #1,261)
- Biggest jump: 1,143 spots in 1996 (#1,900 → #757)
- Biggest drop: 347 spots in 1998 (#765 → #1,112)
- Debuted 1992
- Peaked 1996 at #757 (279 births)
- Births halved by 1999, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 1996–1997
- Highest: 1 in 6,283 girls born in 1996 were named Xena (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,081 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 35.5% of all girls named Xena (1,248) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 924 | #757 (1996) | #5,128 |
| 2000s | 350 | #2,141 (2000) | #4,561 |
| 2010s | 991 | #1,209 (2019) | #2,474 |
| 2020s | 1,248 | #1,024 (2022) | #1,164 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Xena in 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
More about 1996
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1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 6,283 of them was named Xena, which outranked 95.2% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).