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Xaviar vs Xavior

American parents have registered 1,357 Xaviors since 1880, against 631 Xaviars. Xavior is still ahead, with 15 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Xaviar Xavior

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 38 years in which either name was published, Xavior for 31 years and Xaviar for 7 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Xaviar Xavior
Total US births 6311,357
Most in one year 41106
Babies in 2025 515
Estimated living today 6201,300
Median age today 1916
Peak year 20062009
Best rank 2,784th boys1,546th boys
Rank in 2025 12,008th5,861st
First recorded 19881989
Girls / boys 0 / 6310 / 1,357

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 Xaviars alive today are over 19; half the Xaviors are over 16. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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