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Xaviera vs Xavion

American parents have registered 2,732 Xavions since 1880, against 709 Xavieras. Xavion is still ahead, with 90 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Xaviera against Xavion, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Xaviera Xavion

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 53 years in which either name was published, Xavion for 28 years and Xaviera for 25 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Xaviera Xavion
Total US births 7092,732
Most in one year 29141
Babies in 2025 1290
Estimated living today 6902,700
Median age today 3114
Peak year 19922007
Best rank 3,680th girls1,246th boys
Rank in 2025 8,362nd1,778th
First recorded 19731985
Girls / boys 709 / 00 / 2,732

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 Xavieras alive today are over 31; half the Xavions are over 14. That is 17 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.

Country Xaviera Xavion
England and Wales 726

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: Xaviera and Xavion.