Xavier is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The first name Xavier is one of the top 100 most popular boys names in the US – currently at #84 in our SmartGenius ranking. Over 1,000 babies each year are named Xavier, accounting for approximately 0.30 % of all newborn boys. In the entire USA, approximately 147,066 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Xavier. That is 0.04 % of all living Americans.
The name Xavier is of Basque origin, and is derived from the place name Etxeberria in northern Spain, which means ‘new house.’ Xavier is also a common name in the Catholic Church, as Saint Francis Xavier was a 16th-century Spanish missionary and co-founder of the Jesuit order.
The Basque Country... is an autonomous community of Spain. In its current borders, it has existed since 1979 and has around 2,2 million inhabitants.
Xavier Woods (*1986)
Austin Watson, better known under his ring name Xavier Woods, is an American professional wrestler. The WWE wrestler, who debuted in 2010, also wrestled for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, winning the Team Championship once with Jay Lethai.
Xavier Atencio (1919 – 2017)
Atencio served as a photo interpreter in the US Army Air Forces during World War II. After that, he was an animator and imaginer for The Walt Disney Company, best known for writing the song lyrics for Disney theme park attractions. In 1996, he was named a Disney Legend.
Xavier Tilliette (1921 – 2018)
Tilliette was a French philosopher and theologian. He taught philosophy at the Catholic Institute of Paris and the Lateran University in Rome. He spoke eight languages fluently and published more than 2,000 essays, books, or articles on philosophy and its history.
Xavier Tondo (1978 – 2011)
Tondo was a Spanish road racing cyclist, specializing in mountain stages. He was known for actively fighting against doping in sports. In 2011, he tipped off police about a doping ring. The same year, he died in a domestic accident.
When you hear the name Xavier, you might first think of people. But did you know that there are also places with the name Xavier? Are you also called Xavier? Maybe one day you will visit the places that are named just like you...
is called Xavier. It is located close to the border with France and has little more than 100 inhabitants.
is located on a hill in the town Xavier, Spain. It was built around 1220 and was the birthplace of Francis Xavier, a saint and co-founder of the Society of Jesus in 1540.
is a private Jesuit university in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was established in 1832, making it one of the oldest Catholic universities in the US.
and cyclones bear the name Xavier. For example, they appeared in Mexico in 2018 and in Northern Europe in 2017.
This is a real surprise! Xavier is a name that has been around for a long time, but only really took off in the 21st century. In the year 2009, it reached its best rank at #66 according to our SmartGenius statistics. This makes Xavier much more popular than in previous generations, where it was so rare for several years that it was not even recorded in the statistics. While the name Xavier was observed for the first time ever in 1886, it now seems to have found its place in the zeitgeist of the 21st century. In 2009, the year of its highest popularity, the name was given a total of 6,229 times. Whether this beautiful boys' name can repeat or even exceed its previous best ranking in the coming years remains to be seen, but the prospects are promising given the positive trend.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Xavier was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Xavier ranked #100 in our SmartGenius statistics. In absolute figures, this means it was given to baby boys a total of 3,580 times. No one knows what names (or combinations of numbers and letters) will be popular 50 years from now, but given its popularity in the early years of this millennium, there is a good chance that Xavier will not disappear from the screen anytime soon.
Everyone knows him, everyone loves him and still he’s different from the mainstream: Xavier 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 Xavier 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, Xavier 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 147,019 men and boys of all generations bear the name Xavier – that is one in 1,135. 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 Xavier, while it is particularly rare in Vermont, where you have to ask an average of 2,908 men for their name to get Xavier 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 Xavier 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 Xavier 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 Xavier, you can simply say:
Xylophone
Apple
Violin
Igloo
Elephant
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Xavier
Xavier
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. Xavier sounds like this:
