Xavia vs Xavien

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Xavia Xavien

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, Xavien for 27 years and Xavia for 13 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

• 1982–1985 Xavia ahead
• 1988 Xavien ahead
• 1989 Xavia ahead
• 1990 Xavien ahead
• 1991–2000 Xavia ahead
• 2001–2025 Xavien ahead

Side by side

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 Xavias alive today are over 16; half the Xaviens are over 10. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

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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