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Xzander vs Xzavier

American parents have registered 8,424 Xzaviers since 1880, against 711 Xzanders. Xzavier is still ahead, with 120 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Xzander against Xzavier, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Xzander Xzavier

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

Xzavier has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1976 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2021, when Xzander had 37 and Xzavier had 160.

Side by side

  Xzander Xzavier
Total US births 7118,424
Most in one year 49461
Babies in 2025 25120
Estimated living today 7108,300
Median age today 1015
Peak year 20172011
Best rank 2,566th boys553rd boys
Rank in 2025 4,139th1,477th
First recorded 20021976
Girls / boys 0 / 7110 / 8,424

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 Xzaviers alive today are over 15; half the Xzanders are over 10. That is 5 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 Xzander Xzavier
England and Wales 366

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: Xzander and Xzavier.