Xavier

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)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Xavier".

1886 2023 18862023

Key Statistics

Total Births
853
Peak Births
34
Peak Year
1991
First Recorded
1960
Peak Percentile
3.4%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#731
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
153,632
Peak Births
6,560
Peak Year
2009
First Recorded
1886
Peak Percentile
92.6%
Current Percentile
88.9%
Peak Rank
#67
Current Rank
#102
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Xavier

Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Xavier. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 49.2% confident that Xavier is pronounced as ZAY-vee-er. The next most likely pronunciation is EHK-say-vee-er, at 16.9% confidence.

EHK-say-vee-er (4 syllables)
16.9% confidence
EH1 K S EY0 V IY0 ER0
EHK-SAY-vee-er (4 syllables)
15.3% confidence
EH1 K S EY1 V IY0 ER0
zay-vee-er (3 syllables)
5.1% confidence
Z EY0 V IY0 ER0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Xavier. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Xavier, please vote using the thumbs up button.

ZA-vee-er (3 syllables)
5 names 8.1k births
Z AE1 V IY0 ER0
ZAY-vee-uhr (3 syllables)
3 names 418 births
Z EY1 V IY0 AH0 R

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like Z EY1 V IY0 ER0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.