Avksenty () is a Russian Christian male first name. The name is derived from the Greek name Auxentios, which in turn derives from the word auxanō, meaning to increase, to grow. "Avksenty" continued to be a form used by the Russian Orthodox Church, having replaced an earlier form Auksenty ().
Its colloquial variants are Aksyon (), Aksenty (), Oksenty (), and Oksyon (). The substandard colloquial form Akenty () is also used.
The diminutives of "Avksenty" are Avksentyushka (), Avksyuta (), Ksyuta (), Avksyusha (), Ksyusha (), Ksenya (), Ksena (), Senya (), Aksyonka (), Ksyona (), Aksentyushka (), Aksya (), Aksyuta (), and Aksyusha ().
The patronymics derived from "Avksenty" are "" (Avksentiyevich), "" (Avksentyevich; both masculine); and "" (Avksentiyevna), "" (Avksentyevna; both feminine).
People with this first name Avksenty Stadnitsky, secular name of Metropolitan Arsenius (1862–1936), Russian orthodox prelate Avksenty Tsagareli (1857–1902), Georgian playwright Aksenty Ivanovich Poprishchin, the fictional protagonist of Nikolai Gogol's short story "Diary of a Madman"
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