Entry № 11608 · Spanish origin

Ximena Ximena — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ hee-MEH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
"One who listens (El Cid's wife)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Spanish)

A name that means "one who listens (el cid's wife)".

Ximena is the medieval Spanish form of Simone — from the Hebrew Shim'ōn (he has heard, listener) — via the Basque tradition. A top-200 US baby name (girls) since 2008. Doña Jimena Díaz (Ximena) (c. Princess Ximena of Asturias — Spanish royal heritage.

One who listens.

The name in its native script.

Ximena
Transliteration
Ximena
Pronunciation
/ hiˈmɛn.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ximena stands.

Ximena 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.

Ximenas before her.

Real people
Doña Jimena Díaz
Wife of El Cid; regent of Valencia.
c. 1054 – 1116
Ximena Navarrete
Miss Universe 2010.
born 1988
Ximena Sariñana
Mexican Latin Grammy singer.
born 1985
In fiction
Ximena
El Cid epic poetry.
c. 1200

Names connected to Ximena.

The number behind Ximena.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ximena reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.