Xavier
Xavier places #108 across the country in 2025, sitting where it has sat for years. It has been on the books since 1886 and never mattered more than it does today; 160,332 bearers and counting.
What Xavier carries
Xavier · Arabic
“bright”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Xavier’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Xavier, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Xavier since 1886
Xavier peaked in 2007 at #68; #108 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Xavier is most common
Among the states, Xavier takes its largest share in New Mexico, 0.52% of the boys' names recorded there in 2025, with District of Columbia and Alaska next.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Xavier
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Damian
#109 in 2025 · Greek
Easton
#110 in 2025
River
#111 in 2025
Eli
#104 in 2025
Hailey
#104 in 2025
Austin
#113 in 2025 · Latin
Cora
#113 in 2025 · Greek
Colton
#103 in 2025
Browse: names starting with X · Arabic names · all names
About Xavier
Where does Xavier rank right now?
Xavier places #108 across the country in 2025, sitting where it has sat for years. The full curve since 1886 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What does Xavier mean?
“bright” is the meaning our source sets down, of Arabic origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
What names go with Xavier?
Damian, Easton and River sit nearest to Xavier on origin, era, syllables and first letter. Put your own names into the sibling matcher for a list scored against them.
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