Xavier
Xavier reached its high-water mark in 2007 at number 68, and has been recorded 161,200 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 108th. About 157,000 Xaviers are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 17.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Xavier boys named Xavier
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 161,200
- Estimated living today
- 157,000
- Median age today
- 17
- Peak year
- 2007
- Best rank
- 68th
- Rank in 2025
- 108th
- First recorded
- 1886
- Girls / boys
- 868 / 160,332
How old the living Xaviers are
born that year still alive today
Of the 161,200 babies given the name since 1886, about 157,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 82,000 of them are children and 970 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2008 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, from Basque
Toponymic surname of a 16th-century saint born in the Kingdom of Navarre, Francis de Xavier, from a place name in the Kingdom of Navarre, originally from Basque Xabier. Doublet of Echeverría.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Xaviers
- Xavier Bettel (born 1973)Luxembourgish politician
- Xavier Dolan (born 1989)Canadian filmmaker
- Xavier Bichat (1771–1802)French anatomist and pathologist
- Xavier Espot Zamora (born 1979)prime minister of Andorra since 2019
- Xavier Samuel (born 1983)Australian actor
- Xavier de Maistre (1763–1852)French writer
- Xavier Malisse (born 1980)Belgian tennis player
- Xavier Becerra (born 1958)25th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
People named Xavier with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Xavier is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Xavier is most concentrated in Nevada (2.8×), Arizona (2.6×), New Mexico (2.3×), Florida (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2007
The most popular boys’ names the year Xavier peaked:
Xavier elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Xavier | 112,700 | 25th |
| England and Wales boys | Xavier | 5,912 | 163rd |
| Spain boys | Xavier | 2,938 | 80th |
| New Zealand boys | Xavier | 2,178 | 29th |
| Poland boys | Xavier | 1,875 birth registrations | 99th |
| Belgium boys | Xavier | 1,153 | 115th |
| Switzerland boys | Xavier | 598 | 193rd |
| Ireland boys | Xavier | 230 | 257th |
| Scotland boys | Xavier | 185 | 207th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Xavier | 25 | 276th |
| France girls | Xavier | 5 | 1,047th |
| England and Wales girls | Xavier | 3 | 5,785th |
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.
Xavier: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Xavier | 239 | 0.019% | 249th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Xavier | 341 | 0.078% | 60th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Xavier | 18 | 0.028% | 86th |
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, Xavier is most concentrated in Fribourg, where 0.09% of children were given it – 64 of them.
Xavier: rank by region
In 2025, Xavier was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Xavier | 914 | 5 |
| Wallonia | Xavier | 394 | 6 |
In 2019, Xavier was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Xavier | 9 | 3 |
In 2025, Xavier was given 2 times or more in 8 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Xavier | 209 | 3 |
| Lubuskie | Xavier | 138 | 2 |
| Łódzkie | Xavier | 183 | 2 |
| Małopolskie | Xavier | 234 | 2 |
| Mazowieckie | Xavier | 312 | 2 |
| Pomorskie | Xavier | 212 | 2 |
| Śląskie | Xavier | 254 | 2 |
| Wielkopolskie | Xavier | 248 | 2 |
In 2022, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Xavier appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (343rd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – 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.
Xavier by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 4 | 584th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Xavier 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Xavier | 1,172 | 2,491 |
| Finland boys | Xavier | 33 | 99 |
| the Netherlands girls | Xavier | — | 24 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, 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 Xavier lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 33,915 men called Xavier 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lleida | Xavier | 2,297 | 9.756 | 13 |
| Girona | Xavier | 3,519 | 8.452 | 14 |
| Barcelona | Xavier | 20,220 | 6.933 | 22 |
| Tarragona | Xavier | 2,734 | 6.237 | 25 |
| Balears, Illes | Xavier | 1,402 | 2.252 | 73 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Xavier | 361 | 1.157 | 128 |
Listed in 45 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 7 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Xavier 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.