Xavier
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in French: From Basque Etchaberri, meaning “new house”; a name from the Basque region of southwest France and northeast Spain
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ksavje/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Xavier is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ECEcuador1 in 1K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 1.5K
- USUnited States1 in 2.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 262 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 726 (inferred from the name graph)
119,289 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Basque Etchaberri, meaning “new house”; a name from the Basque region of southwest France and northeast Spain.
Sources 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Xavier is read(measured from records)
Xavier is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French30%
From Basque Etchaberri, meaning “new house”; a name from the Basque region of southwest France and northeast Spain.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
From Basque etxe berri ‘new house’, via the place-name Javier.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Du basque Etcheverri > Jaberri > Javier > Xavier, « maison neuve »; nom de localité navarraise.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Du basque Etxeberri « maison neuve »; fête le 3 décembre (saint François Xavier).
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
- English22%
Spanish/Basque form meaning "new house"; from Basque place name
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A male given name from Spanish [in turn from Basque].
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish22%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Xavier in Spanish.
- Portuguese17%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Xavier in Portuguese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Xavier counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 119,289 | 1 in 2.8K | 119K | Xavier | 262 |
| FR France | — | ≈94,000 est. | ≈1 in 726 | 113K | — | 4 |
| ES Spain | — | 33,915 | 1 in 1.5K | 34K | Xavier | 123 |
| EC Ecuador | #694 | 16,713 | 1 in 1K | 17K | Xavier | 48 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 841 | 20 | Xavier | 44 |
| AO Angola | #167 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Xavier | 38 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 341 | Xavier | 41 |
119,289 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pedro V of Portugalb. 1837PTnot in their usual nameKing of Portugal from 1853 to 1861
- Carlos I of Portugalb. 1863PTnot in their usual nameKing of Portugal from 1889 to 1908 (1863–1908)
- Savielly Tartakowerb. 1887FRnot in their usual namePolish and French chess player (1887–1956)
- Jean-Louis Trintignantb. 1930FRnot in their usual nameFrench actor (1930–2022)
- Gérard Depardieub. 1948FRnot in their usual nameFrench actor (born 1948)
- Xavier Becerrab. 1958US25th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
- Stephon Marburyb. 1977USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player (born 1977)
- Xavier Espot Zamorab. 1979ADprime minister of Andorra since 2019 (born 1979)
- Xavi Hernándezb. 1980ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer and manager (born 1980)
- Raphaël Varaneb. 1993FRnot in their usual nameFrench footballer (born 1993)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 120 sources across 63 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 119K | #471 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 113K | #1,268 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 34K | #98 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 34K | #230 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 17K | #138 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 3.2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 708 | #471 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 80 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Xavier?
- A machine transcription gives /ksavje/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Xavier mean, and where does it come from?
- From Basque Etchaberri, meaning “new house”; a name from the Basque region of southwest France and northeast Spain. Recorded by Tên Họ Người Việt Nam.
- What are other forms of the name Xavier?
- In the etymology graph, Javier, Javi and Saverio are forms of the same name in other languages; Xavi is a recorded short or pet form.
- Is Xavier a male or female name?
- Xavier is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Xavier have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 119 thousand people named Xavier, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled xavier.
- How common is the name Xavier?
- In the United States, the national register counted 119,289 people named Xavier in 2020, about 1 in 2.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Xavier compared with other names?
- In Angola, Xavier is the 167th most common given name of 11,132 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/xavierThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Xavier” — the 167th most common given name in Angola. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.