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Xavi vs Xavian

American parents have registered 2,492 Xavis since 1880, against 1,956 Xavians. Xavi is still ahead, with 112 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Xavi against Xavian, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Xavi Xavian

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 40 years in which either name was published, Xavian for 25 years and Xavi for 15 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Xavi Xavian
Total US births 2,4921,956
Most in one year 27293
Babies in 2025 11292
Estimated living today 2,5001,900
Median age today 1113
Peak year 20112024
Best rank 805th boys1,767th boys
Rank in 2025 1,539th1,753rd
First recorded 20051986
Girls / boys 6 / 2,4860 / 1,956

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Xavians alive today are over 13; half the Xavis are over 11. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Xavi Xavian
England and Wales 14153

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Xavi and Xavian.