Entry № 7747 · Ukrainian origin

Oksana Oksana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ok-SAH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Ukrainian
Meaning
"Hospitality, foreign"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Ukrainian)

A name that means "hospitality, foreign".

Oksana is the Ukrainian form of Xenia — from the Greek xenia, meaning "hospitality" or "stranger." Popularised by the heroine of Mykola Lysenko's opera Christmas Eve.

Oksana is widely used in Ukraine. Oksana Baiul (born 1977) is the Ukrainian Olympic figure-skating champion.

Hospitality. The Ukrainian Xenia.

The name in its native script.

Оксана
Transliteration
Oksana
Pronunciation
/ əkˈsɑː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Oksana stands.

Oksana does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Oksanas before her.

Real people
Oksana Baiul
Ukrainian Olympic figure skater.
born 1977
In fiction
Oksana
Heroine of Lysenko's opera Christmas Eve.
1882 opera

Names connected to Oksana.

The number behind Oksana.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Oksana reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.