Xander is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Xander isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Xander ranks 189. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 12 were named Xander. In the entire USA, approximately 34,928 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Xander. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Xander is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Xander cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #162 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2017. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Xander, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Xander seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Xander was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
1,892 babies were named Xander in 2022 - that's 1 in 85,320 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Xander ranked 195 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Everyone knows him, everyone loves him and still he’s different from the mainstream: Xander occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the nearly 50,000 different male first names that occur in the USA, only 386 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Xander is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Xander is not one of those names that everyone encounters in his neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, captures attention and is something special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 34,922 men and boys of all generations bear the name Xander – that is one in 4,780. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in Nevada, where one in 400 men and boys is called Xander, while it is particularly rare in Delaware, where you have to ask an average of 17,846 men for their name to get Xander as an answer once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter X is the rarest initial for boys' names in the US. Only 0.4% of all common boys' names begin with this letter. Incidentally, the second-rarest first letter of boys' names is U, and the most common first letters are J and A.
With six letters, the name Xander is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 0.4% of all boys' names starting with X, all other letters occur on average nearly nine times as often. Moreover, of the comparatively few boys' names that start with X, most of them aren't very common either - the most popular one currently is Xavier.
If your name is Xander and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Xander, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Xander sounds like this:
