Xavier
A Latin name meaning "new house". It peaked in Poland through the 2010s and has been sliding since, still handed only to boys and rare enough that most Poles have never met one.
Xavier Pronunciation
What Xavier means
Where Xavier comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Xavier begins with a house. The short meaning, "new house," points back to a fortress in Navarre, the Castle of Xavier, where Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta was born in 1506. He took the place as his name. As Franciscus Xaverius, the Latin form the Church later used, he sailed to India and Japan as a founding Jesuit, and by 1622 he was a saint.
That Latin spelling carried the name into French and English registers, where it settled without diminutives or variants. Xavier stays Xavier.
The meaning "new house" is the older layer, a description of a building before it became a person. Read on a Polish class register today, Xavier sits among the Jakubs and Antonis as something borrowed, its name-day falling on the third of December. The saint gave the word its reach. The castle gave it its meaning, nowy dom.
How many people are named Xavier
1 in 9309 men in Poland is named Xavier. 2,293 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #668 among male names.
Xavier's popularity over time
20 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #517 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2002.
Where Xavier is most popular
Xavier is most popular in Pomeranian, 131% above the national average (26 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Opole (+99%) and West Pomeranian (+71%). It is least common in Łódź and Subcarpathian, 79% and 78% below average respectively.
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Pomeranian26 boys born+131%
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Opole7 boys born+99%
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West Pomeranian11 boys born+71%
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Lower Silesian20 boys born+67%
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Silesian24 boys born+38%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian11 boys born+32%
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Warmian-Masurian7 boys born+28%
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Lubusz4 boys born+5%
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Lesser Poland16 boys born−8%
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Greater Poland14 boys born−15%
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Podlaskie4 boys born−20%
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Masovian13 boys born−52%
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Świętokrzyskie2 boys born−53%
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Lublin2 boys born−74%
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Subcarpathian2 boys born−78%
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Łódź2 boys born−79%
Xavier as a middle name
Xavier is a first name for 2,293 men in Poland and a middle name for another 409, an 85/15 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 348th, between Stanley (416) and Nathan (407).
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346
416Ludomir
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347
416Stanley
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348409Xavier
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349
407Nathan
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350
404Aaron