Xeno
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- ZEE-noh
- Origin
- Greek
- US rank, 2025
- #8,906 for boys
Xeno is a boys' name of Greek origin, meaning “stranger, guest”. In 2025 it ranked 8,906th for boys in the US (8 babies).
What does Xeno mean?
Greek: from Greek xenos
“stranger, guest”
From Greek xenos, which meant both stranger and guest, a word at the heart of ancient Greek ideas of hospitality.
Is Xeno a girl's or a boy's name?
Xeno is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Xeno in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,906th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 210,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 8 boys in the US were named Xeno, making it the 8,906th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,016th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 15 boys. It first appears in the records in 2017.
Half of all the boys named Xeno in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 61 boys in the US were given Xeno or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,958, up from #8,906 for this spelling alone.
- Zeno 53
- Xeno 8
Xeno in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #8,906 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,760 |
| 2023 | 15 | #5,922 |
| 2022 | 10 | #7,762 |
| 2021 | 7 | #9,709 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,016 |
| 2019 | 6 | #10,797 |
| 2018 | 8 | #8,813 |
| 2017 | 8 | #8,835 |
Names like Xeno
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kairo, Zuko, Mikko, Kenzo, Hiro, Tru, Chozen, Mako, Kato, Kaizen, Yug, Rumi
Other spellings of Xeno
Names related to Xeno
More Greek names
Luca, Theodore, Sophia, George, Theo, Lucas, Sofia, Alexander, Sebastian, Penelope, Phoebe, Margot, Luke, Chloe, Sophie, Zoe
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Xeno: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/xeno, updated 20 October 2026.