Xavia
Feminine · “the new house”
Xavia is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 766 girls against 11 boys since 1880.
Xavier is a house. The Basque etxeberria means the new house, and it named a castle in Navarre; the man born there in the sixteenth century took the place as his surname, traveled to India and Japan, and made it one of the most-given names in the Catholic world. Xavia is the feminine, made in English.
How old is the name Xavia?
Xavia first appears in US birth records in 1982 — 43 years ago. The typical Xavia alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 800 people named Xavia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Xavia most popular?
Xavia peaked in 2023, reaching #2674 nationally. Today it ranks #4878, 2,204 places below that high. See the whole 2023 chart.
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Where it comes from
From etxeberria to Xavia
The story of Xavia
Francis of the castle of Xavier was one of the first Jesuits and one of the most traveled men of his century, and after his canonization his surname became a given name across Spain, Portugal, France, Italy and the whole Catholic world, including the parts of Asia he had reached. The feminine forms, Xaviera, Javiera and Xavia, followed. Xavia is the shortest and the most recent, an American formation from the last few decades that keeps the X and trims everything else.
Meaning
the new house
Basque etxe, a house, with berri, new, and the article -a: etxeberria, the new house. The castle of Xavier in Navarre carried the name, and the family took it from the place.
How the name formed
- etxeberria
- Xavier
- Xavia
Related forms: Javiera · Xabier · Xaviera · Xavière
Pronouncing Xavia
ZAY-vee-uh
Three syllables, stress in front, the x said as a z at the start of a word in English. Spanish says the letter as an h and Basque as a sh, so the name sounds quite different in each.
Nicknames for Xavia
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1982
- Most girls named
- 202365 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2674reached in 2023
- Change vs 2024
- −47.1%27 in 2025, from 51
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Xavia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Javiera in Spanish — related form
- Xabier in Basque — related form
- Xaviera in Dutch — related form
- Xavière in French — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Georgia.
Xavias among us
people named Xavia are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 59,528 born in 2025 was named Xavia
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Xavia
- #4878
- Xavia on the 2025 chart
- #917
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Xavia went to 27 girls in 2025, but Xaviah is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 43, which makes it the 917th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,961 places above the chart.
- Xavia27
- Xaviah16
About 1 girl in 37,378 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 59,528 for Xavia itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Wilmetta test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Xavia's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Wilmetta climbed just as high around 1918, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Wilmetta's path sketches the road Xavia is walking now.
Xavia sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Xavia is headed
Xavia is on a steep climb — if the curve holds, 2030 could see around 78% more babies given the name than today. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Xavia beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Xavia in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is a real building in a real place and can be shown on a map.
- The X gives it a distinctive look while the sound stays easy.
- It connects to a documented sixteenth-century history with a very wide reach.
- The X is said three different ways across English, Spanish and Basque.
- Xavia, Xaviera and Zavia are all in use, so the spelling will be asked for.
- It is a recent formation, so it does not share the long record of the masculine name.
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Feminine · #4878 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Xavias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Xavia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Xavia?
- Xavia is the most-used spelling in US records — 27 of the 43 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Xaviah.
- How popular is the name Xavia in 2025?
- Xavia ranks #4878 among US girl names in 2025, with 27 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Xavia?
- About 1 in every 59,528 US girls born in 2025 was named Xavia — 27 in all.
- Will my child share the name Xavia with classmates?
- Xavia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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