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Xavian vs Xavien

American parents have registered 1,956 Xavians since 1880, against 1,350 Xaviens. Xavian is still ahead, with 92 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Xavian against Xavien, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Xavian Xavien

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 40 years in which either name was published, Xavian for 36 years and Xavien for 4 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Xavian Xavien
Total US births 1,9561,350
Most in one year 93102
Babies in 2025 9247
Estimated living today 1,9001,300
Median age today 1310
Peak year 20242021
Best rank 1,767th boys1,635th boys
Rank in 2025 1,753rd2,718th
First recorded 19861988
Girls / boys 0 / 1,9560 / 1,350

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 Xavians alive today are over 13; half the Xaviens are over 10. That is 3 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Xavian Xavien
England and Wales 534

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: Xavian and Xavien.