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 parents choose Xavier
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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Pomeranian
+131%1 in 5,666 babies
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Opole
+99%1 in 6,585 babies
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West Pomeranian
+71%1 in 7,675 babies
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Łódź
−79%1 in 63,359 babies
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Subcarpathian
−78%1 in 60,283 babies
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Lublin
−74%1 in 51,338 babies
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Pomeranian+131% 26 born1 in 5,666 babies+131%
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Opole+99% 7 born1 in 6,585 babies+99%
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West Pomeranian+71% 11 born1 in 7,675 babies+71%
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Lower Silesian+67% 20 born1 in 7,857 babies+67%
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Silesian+38% 24 born1 in 9,483 babies+38%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian+32% 11 born1 in 9,944 babies+32%
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Warmian-Masurian+28% 7 born1 in 10,256 babies+28%
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Lubusz+5% 4 born1 in 12,414 babies+5%
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Lesser Poland−8% 16 born1 in 14,182 babies−8%
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Greater Poland−15% 14 born1 in 15,375 babies−15%
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Podlaskie−20% 4 born1 in 16,447 babies−20%
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Masovian−52% 13 born1 in 27,251 babies−52%
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Holy Cross−53% 2 born1 in 27,717 babies−53%
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Lublin−74% 2 born1 in 51,338 babies−74%
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Subcarpathian−78% 2 born1 in 60,283 babies−78%
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Łódź−79% 2 born1 in 63,359 babies−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 Ludomir416
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#347 Stanley416
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#348 Xavier409
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#349 Nathan407
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#350 Aaron404