Xawier
A Latin name meaning "new house". It stays rare in Poland: only around 150 men carry this spelling, so most Poles have never met one, though the count of newborns has ticked up again lately.
Xawier Pronunciation
What Xawier means
Where Xawier comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Xawier reaches Polish through the Latin form Xaverius. That spelling filled baptismal registers across Catholic Europe after Francis Xavier, the Jesuit missionary canonized in 1622, made it a Christian name. The Polish spelling Xawier keeps the Latin x that later forms let go.
Underneath Xaverius sits a meaning with no saint in it. New house, in Polish nowy dom. The name started as a place, the settlement a boy came from, and he carried that place with him as a given name.
On a Polish class register the x gives it away. The teacher sees it before the second letter. A boy named Xawier learns to spell it young, because the common Polish version begins without that letter and he keeps it.
The saint travelled to India and Japan. The meaning stayed home: nowy dom, a new house.
How many people are named Xawier
1 in 138612 men in Poland is named Xawier. 154 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2614 among male names.
Xawier's popularity over time
2 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #1883 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2024.
Where Xawier is most popular
Xawier is most popular in Świętokrzyskie, 1849% above the national average (2 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Greater Poland (+402%).
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Świętokrzyskie2 boys born+1849%
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Greater Poland2 boys born+402%
Xawier as a middle name
Xawier is a first name for 154 men in Poland and a middle name for another 24, an 87/13 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1779th, between Wael (24) and Zaki (24).
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#1777 Vijaykumar24
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#1778 Wael24
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#1779 Xawier24
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#1780 Zaki24
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#1781 Bao23