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Xaviera vs Xavior

American parents have registered 1,357 Xaviors since 1880, against 709 Xavieras. Xavior is still ahead, with 15 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Xaviera against Xavior, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Xaviera Xavior

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, Xavior for 27 years and Xaviera for 26 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Xaviera Xavior
Total US births 7091,357
Most in one year 29106
Babies in 2025 1215
Estimated living today 6901,300
Median age today 3116
Peak year 19922009
Best rank 3,680th girls1,546th boys
Rank in 2025 8,362nd5,861st
First recorded 19731989
Girls / boys 709 / 00 / 1,357

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 Xaviors are over 16. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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