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Xavia vs Xavier

American parents have registered 161,200 Xaviers since 1880, against 777 Xavias. Xavier is still ahead, with 3,241 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Xavia against Xavier, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Xavia Xavier

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

Xavier has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1886 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2023, when Xavia had 65 and Xavier had 3,435.

Side by side

  Xavia Xavier
Total US births 777161,200
Most in one year 656,577
Babies in 2025 273,241
Estimated living today 770157,000
Median age today 1617
Peak year 20232007
Best rank 2,674th girls68th boys
Rank in 2025 4,878th108th
First recorded 19821886
Girls / boys 766 / 11868 / 160,332

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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Xavia Xavier
England and Wales 205,915

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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