# Xenophanes (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/xenophanes/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | “of foreign appearance”, “foreign”, “appear” |
| Pronunciation | /zɛˈnɒfəniːz/, 4 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | not in the US data |
| Boys / girls in the US | not in the US data |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ξενοφάνης (Xenophánēs). The name means “of foreign appearance” and is composed of ξένος (xénos, “foreign”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “appear”).

## In other languages

- Armenian: Քսենոփանես
- Bulgarian: Ксенофан
- Chinese: 色诺芬尼
- Dutch: Xenophanes
- Finnish: Ksenofanes
- French: Xénophane
- German: Xenophanes
- Greek: Ξενοφάνης
- Italian: Senofane
- Japanese: クセノパネス
- Korean: 크세노파네스
- Latin: Xenophanes
- Latvian: Ksenofans
- Lithuanian: Ksenofanas
- Polish: Ksenofanes
- Portuguese: Xenófanes
- Romanian: Xenofan
- Russian: Ксенофа́н
- Slovak: Xenofanes
- Slovene: Ksenofan

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.