Javier
About 108,463 American babies have been named Javier since 1917, most of them around 2001. In 2025 it ranked 274th. About 102,000 Javiers are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 26.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Javier boys named Javier
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 108,463
- Estimated living today
- 102,000
- Median age today
- 26
- Peak year
- 2001
- Best rank
- 149th
- Rank in 2025
- 274th
- First recorded
- 1917
- Girls / boys
- 494 / 107,969
How old the living Javiers are
born that year still alive today
Of the 108,463 babies given the name since 1917, about 102,000 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 30,000 of them are children and 2,800 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1999 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Spanish
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Javiers
- Javier Milei (born 1970)economist, politician and president of Argentina since 2023
- Javier Bardem (born 1969)Spanish actor
- Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (1920–2020)5th Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Javier Mascherano (born 1984)Argentine association football player and manager
- Javier Zanetti (born 1973)Argentine association football player
- Javier Hernández (born 1988)Mexican association football player
- Javier Saviola (born 1981)Argentine footballer
- Javier Pastore (born 1989)Argentine association football player de talleres
People named Javier with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Javier is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Javier is most concentrated in Texas (3.3×), California (3.0×), Arizona (3.0×), New Mexico (2.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2001
The most popular boys’ names the year Javier peaked:
Javier elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain boys | Javier | 66,041 | 6th |
| France boys | Javier | 890 | 369th |
| England and Wales boys | Javier | 517 | 988th |
| Switzerland boys | Javier | 145 | 642nd |
| Poland boys | Javier | 75 birth registrations | 304th |
| Belgium boys | Javier | 6 | 928th |
| Ireland boys | Javier | 6 | 720th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Javier: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Javier | 109 | 0.009% | 527th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Javier | 30 | 0.007% | 361st |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Javier | 6 | 0.009% | 117th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Javier is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 36 of them.
Javier: rank by region
In 2024, Javier was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain. It has come first somewhere in 4 different years.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extremadura | Javier | 9 | 66 |
In 2024, Javier was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Javier | 6 | 3 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Javier among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Javier | 38 | 117 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Javier lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 309,708 men called Javier were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Navarra | Javier | 7,220 | 21.308 | 2 |
| Teruel | Javier | 1,307 | 18.846 | 4 |
| Rioja, La | Javier | 3,019 | 18.731 | 2 |
| Huesca | Javier | 2,089 | 17.829 | 2 |
| Valladolid | Javier | 4,569 | 17.752 | 4 |
| Ávila | Javier | 1,403 | 17.370 | 5 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Javier against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.