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Xander vs Xandria

American parents have registered 40,349 Xanders since 1880, against 845 Xandrias. Xander is still ahead, with 1,335 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Xander against Xandria, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Xander Xandria

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 41 years in which either name was published, Xander for 29 years and Xandria for 12 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Xander Xandria
Total US births 40,349845
Most in one year 2,42150
Babies in 2025 1,3358
Estimated living today 40,000830
Median age today 1021
Peak year 20172003
Best rank 164th boys2,999th girls
Rank in 2025 259th10,917th
First recorded 19901955
Girls / boys 68 / 40,281845 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Xandrias alive today are over 21; half the Xanders are over 10. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Xander and Xandria.