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A given name in English, French and 3 more
[xiˈme.na] · Spanish
01 / Meaning & origin
Ximena is a feminine given name documented in English, French, Spanish and 2 other languages. English Wiktionary records an etymology for it.
A female equivalent of Semeno, itself from seme (“son”).
02 / Across borders
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6 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.
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United States, 2025: 1,686 girls (rank 183). Documented as a given name in English.
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03 / By the numbers
Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.
1880–2025 Spelling: Ximena
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Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
| Year | Applications | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1881 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1882 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1883 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1884 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1885 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1886 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1887 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1888 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1889 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1890 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1891 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1892 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1893 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1894 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1895 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1896 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1897 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1898 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1899 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1900 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1901 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1902 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1903 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1904 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1905 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1906 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1907 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1908 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1909 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1910 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1911 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1912 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1913 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1914 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1915 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1916 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1917 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1918 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1919 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1920 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1921 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1922 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1923 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1924 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1925 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1926 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1927 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1928 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1929 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1930 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1931 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1932 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1933 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1934 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1935 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1936 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1937 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1938 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1939 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1940 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1941 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1942 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1943 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1944 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1945 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1946 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1947 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1948 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1949 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1950 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1951 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1952 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1953 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1954 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1955 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1956 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1957 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1958 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1959 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1960 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1961 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1962 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1963 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1964 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1965 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1966 | 5 | 6,564 | observed |
| 1967 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1968 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1969 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1970 | 12 | 4,492 | observed |
| 1971 | 10 | 5,136 | observed |
| 1972 | 5 | 8,292 | observed |
| 1973 | 6 | 7,435 | observed |
| 1974 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1975 | 6 | 7,984 | observed |
| 1976 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1977 | 8 | 6,892 | observed |
| 1978 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1979 | 9 | 6,696 | observed |
| 1980 | 5 | 10,392 | observed |
| 1981 | 10 | 6,323 | observed |
| 1982 | 8 | 7,469 | observed |
| 1983 | 5 | 10,275 | observed |
| 1984 | 11 | 5,899 | observed |
| 1985 | 7 | 8,318 | observed |
| 1986 | 6 | 9,545 | observed |
| 1987 | 8 | 7,987 | observed |
| 1988 | 19 | 4,496 | observed |
| 1989 | 10 | 7,449 | observed |
| 1990 | 22 | 4,380 | observed |
| 1991 | 25 | 4,059 | observed |
| 1992 | 38 | 3,036 | observed |
| 1993 | 17 | 5,419 | observed |
| 1994 | 28 | 3,790 | observed |
| 1995 | 43 | 2,788 | observed |
| 1996 | 40 | 2,966 | observed |
| 1997 | 59 | 2,283 | observed |
| 1998 | 35 | 3,426 | observed |
| 1999 | 78 | 1,999 | observed |
| 2000 | 125 | 1,472 | observed |
| 2001 | 263 | 870 | observed |
| 2002 | 424 | 604 | observed |
| 2003 | 564 | 509 | observed |
| 2004 | 770 | 397 | observed |
| 2005 | 891 | 353 | observed |
| 2006 | 815 | 391 | observed |
| 2007 | 885 | 370 | observed |
| 2008 | 1,012 | 333 | observed |
| 2009 | 1,052 | 313 | observed |
| 2010 | 1,210 | 274 | observed |
| 2011 | 1,465 | 216 | observed |
| 2012 | 1,463 | 215 | observed |
| 2013 | 1,960 | 162 | observed |
| 2014 | 2,341 | 142 | observed |
| 2015 | 2,602 | 125 | observed |
| 2016 | 2,680 | 119 | observed |
| 2017 | 2,547 | 121 | observed |
| 2018 | 2,571 | 118 | observed |
| 2019 | 2,187 | 129 | observed |
| 2020 | 2,037 | 130 | observed |
| 2021 | 2,000 | 138 | observed |
| 2022 | 2,009 | 144 | observed |
| 2023 | 1,812 | 158 | observed |
| 2024 | 1,750 | 174 | observed |
| 2025 | 1,686 | 183 | observed |
Statistics count the spelling “Ximena” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure applications. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0
Read our methodology04 / Through time
Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.
Ximena
The very ancient queens of Navarre and the Asturias have a wonderful set of aliases, and one, the oddest, is “Amelina, or Simena, or Ximena,” the sister of Sancho I., of Navarre, who married Alfonso the Great. Could the Spaniards, by any possibility, have contracted the soft _Amal_ into the harsh guttural _Xi_, which sounds as if it came from a Moorish throat. Yet, Goths as they were, they show no Amal, though their Ximen and Ximena reach up to 700, and Ximena survived long…
The very ancient queens of Navarre and the Asturias have a wonderful set of aliases, and one, the oddest, is “Amelina, or Simena, or Ximena,” the sister of Sancho I., of Navarre, who married Alfonso the Great. Could the Spaniards, by any possibility, have contracted the soft _Amal_ into the harsh guttural _Xi_, which sounds as if it came from a Moorish throat. Yet, Goths as they were, they show no Amal, though their Ximen and Ximena reach up to 700, and Ximena survived long as a name among their ladies, and was the wife of the Cid, whence the French turned her into Chimène. Emmeline, as it is now generally spelt, came from France as Emeline, and is frequent in old ballad poetry, and in northern registers, as Emyln. It is probably another form of this same Amaline, or _lind_, Amal’s serpent.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VI, Chapter II (Names From Teuton Mythology), Section XVII (Amal) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.
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06 / Behind the facts
Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Mexico City — registered given-name components, selected top 100 per sex/year, 2000–2022
Dirección General del Registro Civil, Ciudad de México · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Ontario first baby names, 1913–2023 (verified redistribution)
Government of Ontario; redistributed by helloharun · OGL-ON-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
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