Xavier

Xavier is the 8,400th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,775 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 79,200.

By the numbers

People: 3,775
Rank: 8,400th
How common: 1 in 79,200
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish, from Basque

Toponymic surname of a 16th-century saint born in the Kingdom of Navarre, Francis de Xavier, from a place name in the Kingdom of Navarre, originally from Basque Xabier. Doublet of Echeverría.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Xavier described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 43.3%
Black, not Hispanic 21.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 20.0%
Hispanic or Latino 9.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Xavier

Francis Xavier (1506–1552)Spanish Catholic saint and missionary
Abel Xavier (born 1972)Portuguese-Mozambican association football player
Francisco Candido Xavier (1910–2002)spiritualist and philanthropist from Brazil
Cleiton Xavier (born 1983)Brazilian footballer and manager
Daniel Xavier (born 1982)Brazilian archer

People named Xavier with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Also a first name

Xavier has been given to 161,200 American babies as a first name since 1886, peaking in 2007. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.