Xaver
Just 54 Polish men carry it, so meeting one would stick in your memory. Latin at root, from a phrase for "new house", and given only to boys.
Xaver Pronunciation
What Xaver means
Where Xaver comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Xaver came into German through the Latin form Xaverius. That form honored Saint Francis Xavier, a sixteenth-century missionary named for a fortress in the Basque hills. The fortress gave the surname, and the surname is where the meaning "new house" was later traced. The sense points to a building, and it reached the name long after the name first existed.
German-speaking lands kept it close, above all in Bavaria and Austria. Franz Xaver Gruber, a village schoolteacher and church organist, composed the melody of "Stille Nacht" in 1818. Xaver was his middle name. The same name still turns up on birth records across the Alpine south.
The word is brief. Four letters, one firm sound.
On a school class register a Xaver stands out beside more common names, and the Latin Xaverius stands behind it. The old meaning stays attached: new house.
How many people are named Xaver
1 in 395300 men in Poland is named Xaver. 54 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5115 among male names.
Xaver's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Xaver as a middle name
Xaver is a first name for 54 men in Poland and a middle name for another 32, a 63/37 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1494th, between Vittorio (32) and Aleksandr (31).
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#1492 Vasyl32
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#1493 Vittorio32
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#1494 Xaver32
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#1495 Aleksandr31
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#1496 Arman31