Xiomara
- Pronunciation
- [Zi-o-ma-ra]
- Gender
- Female
- Meaning
- Famous in battle
- Origin
- Nahuatl
About the Name Xiomara
Xiomara is a feminine given name whose precise etymology remains genuinely uncertain; its origins are not fully documented in surviving historical linguistic records, and no single ancient root has been established with scholarly consensus. The name is most commonly associated with Nahuatl, the language of the Aztec civilization and still spoken by over a million people in Mexico today, and it carries a rich cultural resonance across Latin America and the Caribbean. Its striking opening X — pronounced like an English Z in Ziomara — gives the name an immediately distinctive written form, while its four-syllable flow lends it a musical, unhurried elegance. In Spanish-speaking communities the name has deep roots and strong intergenerational recognition.
Xiomara entered the US Social Security top-1000 in 2004 and has been climbing consistently ever since, reaching its peak of #402 in 2023 with 764 girls receiving the name. The 2024 figure of 714 girls at rank #432 suggests a slight softening from that peak while still representing a strong, sustained presence. More than 6,500 girls have been named Xiomara within the SSA top-1000 era. The name's trajectory — a steady two-decade ascent driven largely by growing Latino representation in the US population — makes it one of the more remarkable quiet success stories in contemporary American naming. Its rarity in non-Latino communities keeps it feeling both special and genuinely rooted in a living cultural tradition.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Xiomara
US Popularity History (2004–2025)
Annual US births named Xiomara by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2023 with 764 girls named Xiomara (girl rank #402 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2025, ranked #463 for girls (665 US births). That's 61 places below its 2023 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Xiomara Most Popular?
Average girl-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Xiomara the strongest states are New Mexico, Arizona, Texas.
Strongest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Mexico | #161 | 96 |
| 2 | Arizona | #284 | 251 |
| 3 | Texas | #351 | 961 |
| 4 | California | #369 | 1,007 |
| 5 | Idaho | #388 | 18 |
| 6 | Colorado | #400 | 130 |
| 7 | Nevada | #435 | 65 |
| 8 | Oregon | #450 | 62 |
| 9 | Kansas | #495 | 45 |
| 10 | Illinois | #500 | 222 |
Weakest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pennsylvania | #1,015 | 39 |
| 2 | New York | #873 | 77 |
| 3 | Minnesota | #859 | 32 |
| 4 | Maryland | #846 | 19 |
| 5 | Georgia | #827 | 63 |
| 6 | Wisconsin | #812 | 40 |
| 7 | New Jersey | #791 | 41 |
| 8 | South Carolina | #784 | 24 |
| 9 | Michigan | #759 | 32 |
| 10 | Florida | #758 | 162 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Xiomara in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
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Compare Xiomara to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Xiomara against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).