girls:
6 births since 2012
#5710 (0th percentile)
boys:
2.2k births since 2005
#2677 (42nd percentile)
overall:
2.2k births since 2005
#5569 (28th percentile)
The name Xavi is the #5,569 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,225 recorded births since 2005. This represents the 28.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 28.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,677 (41.6% percentile) for all time with 2,219 births since 2005. For girls, it ranks #5,710 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 2012.
Xavi first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2005 (2005 for boys and 2012 for girls).
The name Xavi has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Xavi reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 29.5% percentile (ranked #621) with 134 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 134 births per million (ranked 29.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Xavi ranks #798 for boys (12.4% percentile) with 64 births per million, which is 48.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Xavi reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #936) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2012.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Xavi".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Xavi. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 50.0% confident that Xavi is pronounced as ZAY-vee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ZA-vee, at 44.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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