Javier
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Spanish form of Xavier, Basque place-name 'new house'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/xabjeɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Javier is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country, where it is the 7th most common given name.
- ESSpain1 in 161(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 229
- COColombia≈1 in 280
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- #134 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 522 (measured from records)
- 1 in 161 (inferred from the name graph)
309,708 people
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Spanish form of Xavier, Basque place-name 'new house'.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Javier 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #7 | 309,708 | 1 in 161 | 310K | Javier | 330 |
| CO Colombia | #31 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 280 | 145 | Javier | 226 |
| US United States | #470 | 158,810 | 1 in 2.1K | 158K | Javier | 522 |
| AR Argentina | #22 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 330 | 1.8K | Javier | 204 |
| PE Peru | #30 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 288 | 91K | Javier | 173 |
| CL Chile | #23 | ≈80,000 est. | ≈1 in 229 | 419 | Javier | 192 |
| BO Bolivia | #314 | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 244 | — | Javier | 96 |
309,708 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENIEC — DNI population names; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Javier is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, bestowed in honour of St Francis Xavier (1506-52), Jesuit missionary to the Far East. He was a member of a noble family who took their name from the castle of Javier in Navarre, where he was born. The placename is of Basque origin; see EcHEVERRfA. Cogns.: Port.: Xavier (also used in Sp., where it is an archaic spelling).
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In Spanish, from a personal name or religious byname bestowed in honor of St. Francis Xavier (1506-52), Jesuit missionary to the Far East. He was a member of a noble family who took their name from the castle of Xabier in Navarre, where he was bom. The place name Xabier is of Basque origin (see Echeverria).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Another spelling in Spanish of Xavier (see main dictionary).
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Spanish, Vasco etcheberri, 'casa nueva'; por San Francisco Javier.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
In Swedish, Javier (Xavier) är från början ett ortnamn i Spanien (med oklar bakgrund, möjligen baskiskt) som användes som binamn till en av de första jesuiterna, Fransisco (1506–52), född i Xaver, senare helgonförklarad. Namnet är mycket populärt i spansktalande länder och används även i bl.a. Frankrike, där stavningen Xavier är den vanligare.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Javier Pérez de Cuéllarb. 1920PE5th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1920-2020)
- Javier Bardemb. 1969ESSpanish actor
- Javier Mileib. 1970AReconomist, politician and president of Argentina since 2023
- Javier Saviolab. 1981ARArgentine footballer
- Javier Mascheranob. 1984ARArgentine association football player and manager
- Fernando Llorenteb. 1985ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player
- Javier Hernándezb. 1988MXMexican association football player (b. 1988)
- Javi Martínezb. 1988ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer
- Javier Pastoreb. 1989ARArgentine association football player de talleres
- Lautaro Martínezb. 1997ARnot in their usual nameArgentine association football player (born 1997)
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 100 sources across 49 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 310K | #10 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 309K | #7 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 158K | #351 |
| PE Peru | RENIEC — DNI population names | 2019 | 91K | #23 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 1.3K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 666 | #217 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 419 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 353 | #351 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 145 | #22 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 62 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 62 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Javier mean, and where does it come from?
- Spanish form of Xavier, Basque place-name 'new house'. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- What are other forms of the name Javier?
- In the etymology graph, Xavier, Saverio and Xavi are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Javier a male or female name?
- Javier 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 Javier have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 310 thousand people named Javier, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled javier.
- Where is Javier most common?
- Javier is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 161 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Javier?
- In Spain, the national register counted 309,708 people named Javier, about 1 in 161 residents.
- How common is Javier compared with other names?
- In Spain, Javier is the 7th most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Javier?
- A machine transcription gives /xabjeɾ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/javierThe 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, “Javier” — the 7th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.