A baptismal name for a girl
Xenia
12 saints bore this name
Other days it is celebrated
Saints named Xenia
Fool-for-Christ Xenia of St. PetersburgJanuary 24She gave away her possessions to the poor and lived as a fool for Christ in St. Petersburg; died around 1803.
Venerable Xenia of RomeJanuary 24Only daughter of a wealthy Roman senator, who became a nun in Asia Minor in the fifth century.
Right-Believing Xenia YuryevnaJune 29Princess consort of Tver and of Vladimir from 1265 to 1271, counted among the saints of the Russian Church.
Great Martyr Xenia of KalamataMay 3Born at Kalamata in 291 to parents from eastern Italy, honored as a great martyr; died in 318.- Martyr Xenia of CiliciaJanuary 18A woman martyr of Cilicia, who suffered for Christ.
- Venerable Martyr Xenia PetrukhinaMarch 7A woman monastic martyr of the Russian Church, who died in 1938.
- Martyr Xenia RadunA woman martyr of the Church, commemorated in the Orthodox calendar.
- Right-Believing Xenia of TverA princess of Tver, remembered among the right-believing rulers of Rus.
- Venerable Xenia of AgapiaA schemanun of Agapia Monastery in the 18th-19th centuries; named in the Romanian Paterikon, not formally canonized.
- New Martyr Xenia Cherlina-BrailovskayaA new martyr of the Alma-Ata eparchy, killed for the faith in 1937.
- Right-Believing Xenia of YaroslavlJanuary 24A right-believing princess associated with Yaroslavl, commemorated by the Russian Church.
Martyr Xenia of RomeJanuary 18A martyr of Rome.
Questions
The name day of Xenia is January 24, the feast of Fool-for-Christ Xenia of St. Petersburg. It is also kept on June 29, May 3, January 18, March 7.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 12 saints named Xenia, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Xenia is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Fool-for-Christ Xenia of St. Petersburg as patron.