girls:
3.1k births since 1992
#3092 (46th percentile)
overall:
3.1k births since 1992
#4851 (37th percentile)
The name Xena is the #4,851 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,148 recorded births since 1992. This represents the 37.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 37.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,092 (45.9% percentile) for all time with 3,148 births since 1992.
Xena first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1992 (first recorded for girls in 1992).
For girls, Xena reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 31.2% percentile (ranked #591) with 146 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 146 births per million (ranked 31.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2008, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Xena ranks #720 for girls (24.0% percentile) with 133 births per million, which is 91.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Xena".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Xena. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.9% confident that Xena is pronounced as ZEE-nuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ZEH-nuh, at 9.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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