# Oksana

Oksana, Oxana, or Aksana (Ukrainian: Оксана; Belarusian: Аксана, Russian: Оксана), is a female given name of Ukrainian origin. The closest equivalent is the Russian name Kseniya (Russian: Ксения), but the two names coexist in use in both countries, and neither of them is a shortening of the other.

## Origin

The names Oksana (Russian: Оксана, romanized: Oxana), Xana (Russian: Ксана, romanized: Xana), Sana (Russian: Сана, romanized: Sana) and Kseniya (Russian: Ксения, romanized: Xenia) are thought to originate from one of two Greek words: Xenia (hospitality) or Xenos (stranger). Axana is another alternative spelling.

## People
### Oksana

* Oksana Akinshina (born 1987), Russian actress
* Oksana Wilhelmsson (born 1984 as Oksana Andersson), Soviet Union-born member of Swedish band Sunblock
* Oksana Andrusina-Mert (born 1973), Turkish discus thrower of Russian origin
* Oksana Baiul (born 1977), Ukrainian Olympic and world champion figure skater
* Oksana Bilozir (born 1957), Ukrainian singer and stateswoman
* Oksana Chusovitina (born 1975), Uzbek gymnast
* Oksana Domnina (born 1984), Russian ice dancer
* Oksana Dyka (born 1978), Ukrainian opera soprano
* Oksana Esipchuk (born 1976), Russian discus thrower
* Oksana Fadeyeva (née Kushch) (born 1975), Russian table tennis player
* Oksana Grigorieva (born 1970), Russian musician
* Oksana Grishina (born 1968), Russian Olympic track cyclist
* Oksana Grishina (born 1978), Russian former gymnast and current professional fitness competitor
* Oksana Grishuk (born 1972), Russian figure skater
* Oksana Hatamkhanova (born 1990), Olympic swimmer from Azerbaijan
* Oksana Ilyushkina née Kochetkova (born 1974), retired Ukrainian athlete
* Oksana Ivanenko (1906–1997), Ukrainian children's writer and translator
* Oksana Kalashnikova (born 1990), Georgian professional tennis player
* Oksana Kazakova (born 1975), Russian figure skater
* Oksana Khvostenko (born 1977), Ukrainian biathlete
* Oksana Klimova (born 1992), Russian ice dancer
* Oksana Kondratyeva (born 1985), Russian hammer thrower
* Oksana Krechunyak (born 1981), paralympic athlete from Ukraine
* Oksana Kurt (or Parkhomenko, born 1984), Azerbaijani volleyball player
* Oksana Lada (born 1979), Ukrainian actress and model (also known as 'Oksana Babiy')
* Oksana Lyapina (born 1980), Russian gymnast
* Oksana Lyniv (born 1978), Ukrainian conductor
* Oksana Makar (1993–2012), Ukrainian murder victim
* Oksana Masters (born 1989), Ukrainian-born American Paralympic rower
* Oksana Okunyeva (born 1990), Ukrainian high jumper
* Oksana Omelianchik (born 1970), former Soviet gymnast
* Oksana Platero (born 1988), Russian ballroom dancer
* Oksana Pochepa (born 1984), Russian pop singer
* Oksana Potdykova (born 1979), former competitive Russian ice dancer
* Oksana Rogova, Russian triple jumper
* Oksana Shcherbak née Holodkova (born 1982), Ukrainian sprint athlete
* Oksana Shachko (1987–2018), Ukrainian artist and founder of feminist group FEMEN
* Oksana Serikova (born 1985), Ukrainian swimmer
* Oksana Shvets (1955–2022), Ukrainian actress
* Oksana Skaldina (born 1972), Ukrainian rhythmic gymnast
* Oksana Udmurtova (born 1982), Russian athlete
* Oksana Vashchuk (born 1989), Ukrainian freestyle wrestler
* Oksana Voevodina (born 1992), Russian model, 2015 Miss Moscow winner and former wife of Muhammad V of Kelantan, Malaysia
* Oksana Yarygina (born 1972), Russian javelin thrower
* Oksana Yermakova (born 1973), Estonian and Russian Olympic champion épée fencer
* Oksana Yeremeyeva (née Ryabinicheva, 1990), Russian football defender
* Oksana Zabuzhko (born 1960), Ukrainian writer and poet
* Oksana Zbrozhek (born 1978), Russian middle-distance runner
* Oksana Zubkovska, Ukrainian Paralympian athlete

### Oxana

* Oxana Fedorova or Oksana Fedorova (born 1977), Russian television presenter and Miss Universe 2002
* Oxana Malaya or Oksana Malaya (born 1983), Ukrainian feral child
* Oxana Slivenko or Oksana Slivenko (born 1986), Russian weightlifter

### Aksana

* Aksana (wrestler) (born 1982), Lithuanian professional wrestler
* Aksana Drahun (born 1981), Belarusian sprinter
* Aksana Dziamidava (born 1993), Belarusian swimmer
* Aksana Kavalchuk (born 1979), Belarusian volleyball player
* Aksana Miankova (born 1982), Belarusian hammer thrower
* Aksana Papko, (born 1988), Belarusian track cyclist
* Aksana Sivitskaya, Belarusian paralympic athlete

## Fictional characters

* Oxana Vorontsova (in the 2018 novel Codename Villanelle) or Oksana Astankova (in the television series Killing Eve), birth name of fictional assassin Villanelle
* Oksa Pollock in the French children's fantasy series
* Oksana, character in Marco Polo
* Oxana (also known as Kodira), an NPC in actual play podcast The Adventure Zone Ethersea
* Oksana, character in Nikolai Gogol's short story Christmas Eve
* Oksana, name of the Brass Beast mini gun owned by heavy in Team fortress two
* Oksana, second wife of Borat Sagdiyev in the satirical movie Borat.
* Oxana Hauntley, from Vampirina