girls:
853 births since 1960
#4863 (15th percentile)
boys:
153.6k births since 1886
#224 (95th percentile)
overall:
154.5k births since 1886
#489 (94th percentile)
The name Xavier is the #489 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 154,485 recorded births since 1886. This represents the 93.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #224 (95.1% percentile) for all time with 153,632 births since 1886. For girls, it ranks #4,863 (14.9% percentile) for all time with 853 births since 1960.
Xavier first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1886 (1886 for boys and 1960 for girls). Birth data for Xavier is available in 118 out of the 138 years between 1886 and 2023 (118 years for boys and 54 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Xavier has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Xavier reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 92.6% percentile (ranked #68) with 2,932 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 2,962 births per million (ranked 92.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Xavier ranks #102 for boys (88.9% percentile) with 1,864 births per million, which is 62.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Xavier reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 3.4% percentile (ranked #821) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 17 births per million (ranked 3.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Xavier".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Xavier. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 49.2% confident that Xavier is pronounced as ZAY-vee-er, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EHK-say-vee-er, at 16.9% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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