Ksawier
A Latin name meaning "new house", one of several Polish spellings that sit beside Ksawer and Ksawery. Only about 1,800 men carry it, and fewer boys get it each year, so most Poles have never met one.
Ksawier Pronunciation
Ksawier is pronounced KSAHV-yer (/ˈksavjɛr/).
What Ksawier means
Where Ksawier comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ksawery reached Polish through Latin, where it took the form Xaverius. The word behind that Latin spelling means "new house," a small and practical image for a name that later traveled far. Polish kept the sound and softened the spelling, so today you meet it as Ksawery, or the trimmer variant Ksawer.
On a school register the name stands out, four consonants crowding in before the vowels arrive. A teacher may pause at it. The meaning underneath stays plain: a new house.
The name also bends across gender. Ksawera is the feminine form, rarer but real in Polish parish records and on official paper. December 3 is the imieniny for Ksawery, shared with a well-known missionary who bore the Latin name.
A boy named Ksawery answers to a Latin word for a new house.
How many people are named Ksawier
1 in 11742 men in Poland is named Ksawier. 1,818 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #736 among male names.
Ksawier's popularity over time
20 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #510 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2002.
Where Ksawier is most popular
Ksawier is most popular in Kuyavian-Pomeranian, 129% above the national average (25 boys born 2019–2025), followed by West Pomeranian (+101%) and Warmian-Masurian (+67%). It is least common in Łódź and Lublin, 37% and 32% below average respectively.
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian25 boys born+129%
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West Pomeranian17 boys born+101%
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Warmian-Masurian12 boys born+67%
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Lubusz8 boys born+61%
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Pomeranian16 boys born+9%
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Lower Silesian16 boys born+2%
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Masovian35 boys born−1%
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Świętokrzyskie5 boys born−10%
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Lesser Poland20 boys born−12%
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Opole4 boys born−13%
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Subcarpathian10 boys born−17%
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Silesian17 boys born−25%
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Greater Poland16 boys born−26%
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Lublin7 boys born−32%
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Łódź8 boys born−37%
Ksawier as a middle name
Ksawier is a first name for 1,818 men in Poland and a middle name for another 252, an 88/12 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 445th, between Marc (253) and Alfonso (251).
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443
254Diego
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444
253Marc
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445252Ksawier
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446
251Alfonso
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447
250Jakob