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Baby name
Xavier
Boy
Origin of the name
Xavier comes from the name of Saint Francis Xavier, a 16th-century missionary born at the castle of Javier, in Navarre. This Basque place name, Etxeberri, is made of etxe, “house,” and berri, “new”: “new house.”
Rising name
160,332births since 1880
2000sgeneration
No. 68rank at its peak, in 2007
Where babies named Xavier are born
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Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Xavier is most common in Nevada (2.6 times), Arizona (2.4) and New Mexico (2.2), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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