Xenophon
Origin
Greek
Syllables
3
Peak era
Rare
Today
▬ Steady
Meaning
“Greek for foreign voice; famously borne by Xenophon, who helped lead ten thousand stranded Greeks home through hostile Persia and then wrote it down.”
Popularity, 1890–2024
Xenophon does not appear in US Social Security baby-name records, which list only names given to at least five babies in a year. There is no popularity curve to chart: a genuinely rare pick.
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