Xavery
Fewer than a hundred men in Poland carry it: most Poles have never met a Xavery. The name is Latin, with a homely meaning, "new house", and the variant Ksawery does most of the work here.
Xavery Pronunciation
What Xavery means
Where Xavery comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Xavery comes into Polish through the Latin Xaverius. That form belonged to Saint Francis Xavier, a sixteenth-century Jesuit missionary. His surname pointed back to a family estate, a place whose name meant new house. That estate is long gone. The meaning outlasted the house.
The variant most Poles recognize is Ksawery, spelled with an opening K. Xavery keeps the Latin X instead. The two spellings sound the same. On a school class register it can look like a guest from another alphabet, though it settles fast into an ordinary roll call.
Ksawery and Xavery share a name-day on 3 December, the feast of Francis Xavier. A boy named for that saint also holds an old word. Both forms point back, through Xaverius, to new house.
How many people are named Xavery
1 in 426924 men in Poland is named Xavery. 50 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5380 among male names.
Xavery's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Where Xavery is most popular
Xavery is most popular in Greater Poland, 904% above the national average (2 boys born 2019–2025).
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Greater Poland2 boys born+904%
Xavery as a middle name
Xavery is a first name for 50 men in Poland and a middle name for another 14, a 78/22 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2580th, between Wilkomir (14) and Yakub (14).
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#2578 Wiktorian14
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#2579 Wilkomir14
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#2580 Xavery14
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#2581 Yakub14
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#2582 Yousif14