# Ximena (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ximena/  
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 | girls |
| Origin | Spanish |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 39,669 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 13 / 39,656 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 15, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,465 | 216 |
| 2012 | 1,463 | 216 |
| 2013 | 1,960 | 162 |
| 2014 | 2,341 | 143 |
| 2015 | 2,602 | 125 |
| 2016 | 2,680 | 120 |
| 2017 | 2,547 | 121 |
| 2018 | 2,571 | 118 |
| 2019 | 2,187 | 129 |
| 2020 | 2,037 | 130 |
| 2021 | 2,000 | 138 |
| 2022 | 2,009 | 144 |
| 2023 | 1,812 | 158 |
| 2024 | 1,750 | 174 |
| 2025 | 1,686 | 183 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 7 | 10,656 |
| 2016 | 6 | 12,115 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 4 | 4,294 |
| 2016 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2018 | 3 | 5,666 |
| 2022 | 5 | 3,970 |

## People named Ximena

- Ximena Restrepo, Colombian sprinter
- Ximena Duque, Colombian actress and model
- Ximena Herrera, Bolivian actress
- Ximena Abarca, Chilean singer and actress
- Ximena Galarza, Bolivian journalist
- Ximena Rincón, Chilean lawyer
- Beatriz Allende, Chilean politician, revolutionary and surgeon (1942-1977)

## 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.