Again and again I am being asked about my name (axinia), so I decided to write a post and let all the curious people just read that 
I was lucky to be given that strange but beautiful name by my parents. Strange because it is not easy to identify the origin and meaning of it. Beautiful - because it is what everyone says However, when you know the history, it becomes very easy!
You might be familiar with the word ”xenophobia“. “Xenos” is a Greek word meaning “foreign, strange”. The name “Xenia” had come to Russia with the Greek Orthodox Church long ago and was transferred into its Russian version “Axinia” ( in Ukraine it became “Oxana”). Nowadays these versions are independent names, with the following ranking: Oxana - very popular, Xenia - less popular, and Axinia - almost unknown. Personally I have never came across anyone with the same name (and I met several thousands of people, I guess). You can surely find some examples in the Internet, but it is a good luck to meet one in person.
To have such a name is very practical in the modern life - it becomes easily a brand if one wants to, being both unforgettable and powerful (through the combination of “a” and “x”). And I do take advantage of that, as you may have noticed
In Russia the name became famous after the novel based film “ And Quiet flows the Don” that broght Nobel Prise to its author, M. Sholokhov in 1965. Axinia was the main female character and my parents were somehow related to the author… That way it came to me.
And I really love the name!
And what about your name?
LOVE, axinia
axinia
I believe you have a beautiful name.
Lovely name
Thank you both for your sweet comments - in fact I was not expecting any comemnts for this post
Yeah, the name seemed ‘Greek’ to me!!
Now known but still foreign and strange.
Lovely name you have and really you are the first person i met with name Axinia. But for Xenia — i have read that name and I feel it is unique and I gave that name to one of my chinese student in china years back and she loved it. I think Xenia here is name of a flower.
my friends name is axinia, cool dude
OK. I got it.
And you are living up to your name
oxana is a known name.
it sounds like a goddess 
but i think, axinia is the most better version
my name “torsten” (without an H) is an nordic name and the translation/meaning is: the hammer of god thor.
Wortman,
I dont know if it really souns like a goddess, but the “A” in the beginning and the “ya” as the ending make it powerful and beautiful.
I love my name
Torsten sounds very musculine, strong. The hammer of God!
But I thing you would prefer better something like “the sword of god”, right?
it sounds like “musculine and strong”? *ouch*
as a child, i was very thinly. to hide behind a lantern was no problem
as a knight, sword of god sounds really better
but i like this hammer…
verzeih mir grammatikalische zeitenfehler
durch dich fang ich grade mal wieder an, mich mit dem englischen wieder auseinander zu setzen 
My name “priya” means love and affection and I cannot give my full name in the net but it also means the name of hindu god.
Thank you for a beautiful description of your name. Please do visit my poems page too called journal-poems.
“priya” is a wonderufl name - do you know that in Russian “priyatnyi” means “pleasant”???
Lieber wortman,
ich hoffe, die Blog-freundshaft mit mir wird dich zur meheren Veränderungen führen
Zur Namen: in China geben sie dem Kind den Namen, der das Gegenteil von seinem Horskop and physischen zustand ist - eben für den Ausgleich!
das wird es bestimmt axinia.
eine wäre z.b. die frage, ob du mir die ehre erweist, dich in meine freundesliste aufnehmen zu dürfen. ich smile auch gaaaanz doll
ich seh das schon kommen… in drei monaten tipp ich nur noch englisch
siehst ja an meinem neuesten eintrag. nur englisch 
ok, sind nur 2 sätze 
was china angeht, hab ich gehört, einige hundert eltern haben ihren kindern schon den namen “olympiade” (Àolínpǐkè Yùndònghuì / 奥林匹克运动会) verpasst…
mylady, you’re added to my friends