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Xabier

Boys' name

English equivalent of Xavier

Xabier has been given to 56 babies in the U.S. since 1999. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2011, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Xabier, 2022

1 in 677,000

Xabier over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Xabier: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Xavier

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Xabier means

Xabier is a English equivalent of Xavier.

Origin, language, and formation

Xabier is used in Basque.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Xavier.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Basque, Xabier is pronounced /ʃabier/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 56 boys were recorded with the name Xabier between 1999 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2011; its best national rank was #8,725 in 2011.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Xabier?

Xabier had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 349,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Xabier sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Xabier. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Xabiers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Xabier was born before 2011 — so the typical Xabier is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
53.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
56
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 53.6% of all recorded uses (30).

Is Xabier rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2011 (9)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,725
2011

Spellings of Xabier

Xabier is not the most common spelling — Xavier is, with 45.5% against Xabier's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Xabier around the world

Where Xabier ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2004–2020
    #4,608
    in 2020
  • France
    1971–2007
    #4,283
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Xabier by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#8,725
2011
Peak year
2011
9 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
56
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Xabier

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Xabier

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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