Ksawery
A Slavic name that reads as "new house." Around 22,000 Polish men carry it, still uncommon enough that meeting one sticks in your memory, and it stays exclusively a boy's name.
Ksawery Pronunciation
Ksawery is pronounced ksah-VE-rih (/ksaˈvɛrɨ/).
What Ksawery means
Where Ksawery comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ksawery reaches Polish along a long road, and it settled here in Slavic dress. The old records hand it a homely meaning: new house. That sense of a fresh threshold has stayed attached to the name, even as the sound turned courtly and grand.
Say it without the opening K and you have Xawery, the same name in lighter clothes. Point it toward a daughter and it becomes Ksawera, rarer, and clearly its pair. The boy's form keeps its weight, while the diminutives, Ksawer or Ksawcio, wear it down to something a child answers to.
Poland keeps the third of December for Ksawery's imieniny, the feast of Franciszek Ksawery, so the name has a fixed day on every calendar. On an official form at the urząd it looks stately, four syllables standing to attention. Behind all of it waits the small, practical promise the name began with. A new house.
When Ksawery celebrates name day
Ksawery appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 3 December.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Ksawery
1 in 943 men in Poland is named Ksawery. 22,630 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #259 among male names.
Ksawery's popularity over time
650 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #91 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2000.
Where Ksawery is most popular
Ksawery is most popular in Subcarpathian, 39% above the national average (471 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Świętokrzyskie (+33%) and Warmian-Masurian (+20%). It is least common in Lower Silesian and Silesian, 25% and 21% below average respectively.
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Subcarpathian471 boys born+39%
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Świętokrzyskie207 boys born+33%
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Warmian-Masurian243 boys born+20%
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Greater Poland686 boys born+13%
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Podlaskie207 boys born+12%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian336 boys born+9%
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Lubusz152 boys born+9%
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Lesser Poland650 boys born+2%
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West Pomeranian236 boys born−1%
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Łódź350 boys born−2%
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Pomeranian399 boys born−4%
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Lublin269 boys born−7%
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Masovian927 boys born−7%
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Opole114 boys born−12%
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Silesian505 boys born−21%
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Lower Silesian333 boys born−25%
Ksawery as a middle name
Ksawery is a first name for 22,630 men in Poland and a middle name for another 5,466, an 81/19 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 125th, between Remigiusz (5,954) and Kajetan (5,396).
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#123 Alan6,025
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#124 Remigiusz5,954
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#125 Ksawery5,466
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#126 Kajetan5,396
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#127 Fabian5,361