Names/X

Ximena

girls’ nameSteady · modern nameCompare

Ximena is ranked 173rd among girls in 2024 (1,744 births). Its best rank was 118th, in 2018.

Rank in 2024
#173down 15 from 2023
Births in 2024
1,7440.11% of girls
Peak year
20162,680 births
Best rank
#118in 2018
Since 1966
37,963people given the name
Babies named Ximena, by year of birthgirls
01.3k2.5k3.8k5k18801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

37,963 girls have been named Ximena in the United States since 1966, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2016, with 2,680 births — 0.15% of all girls recorded that year.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 143 → 173).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2016, and the 2010s alone account for 55%. It has spent 24 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadegirls named Ximena
1960s5
1970s56
1980s89
1990s385
2000s6,801
2010s21,025
2020s9,602

In 2016, its biggest year

Ximena was the 120th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2016 were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Sophia and Isabella. See all of 2016.

Names that rose and fell with Ximena

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.