Javier

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Xavier in BR Brazil, IN India, PT Portugal, Jävïër in CR Costa Rica and Xabier in AU Australia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Javier is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name1.1M records spelled Javier51 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Venezuela, Peru, Spain

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Javiër, Javiér, Jävïër, Jäviër, Ja'Vier

• Lao given name24K records spelled Javier22 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Laos, United States, Spain, Chile

  Languages: Lao, Thai

  Also written Jávíér, J'Avier, Jäviër, Jávier, Jävïër

• Polish given name22K records spelled Javier44 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, Poland, United States, Czechia

  Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

  Also written Xavier, Хавьер, Xavi, Hauer, Xabier

• Indonesian given name19K records spelled Javier6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, United States, Indonesia, Philippines

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Javiér, Jävîër, Jàvîér, Jävïëř

• Italian given name12K records spelled Javier2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, United States, Peru, Paraguay

  Also written Jávier

87 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Javier is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Spanish, bestowed in honour of St Francis Xavier (1506-52), Jesuit missionary to the Far East. He was a member of a noble family who took their name from the castle of Javier in Navarre, where he was born. The placename is of Basque origin; see EcHEVERRfA. Cogns.: Port.: Xavier (also used in Sp., where it is an archaic spelling).

  as a name·A dictionary of surnames

• In Spanish, from a personal name or religious byname bestowed in honor of St. Francis Xavier (1506-52), Jesuit missionary to the Far East. He was a member of a noble family who took their name from the castle of Xabier in Navarre, where he was bom. The place name Xabier is of Basque origin (see Echeverria).

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• Another spelling in Spanish of Xavier (see main dictionary).

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In Spanish, Vasco etcheberri, 'casa nueva'; por San Francisco Javier.

  as a name·Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

• In Swedish, Javier (Xavier) är från början ett ortnamn i Spanien (med oklar bakgrund, möjligen baskiskt) som användes som binamn till en av de första jesuiterna, Fransisco (1506–52), född i Xaver, senare helgonförklarad. Namnet är mycket populärt i spansktalande länder och används även i bl.a. Frankrike, där stavningen Xavier är den vanligare.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 124 years between 1900–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Javier Pérez de Cuéllarb. 1920PE5th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1920-2020)
• Javier Bardemb. 1969ESSpanish actor
• Javier Mileib. 1970AReconomist, politician and president of Argentina since 2023
• Javier Saviolab. 1981ARArgentine footballer
• Javier Mascheranob. 1984ARArgentine association football player and manager
• Fernando Llorenteb. 1985ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player
• Javier Hernándezb. 1988MXMexican association football player (b. 1988)
• Javi Martínezb. 1988ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer
• Javier Pastoreb. 1989ARArgentine association football player de talleres
• Lautaro Martínezb. 1997ARnot in their usual nameArgentine association football player (born 1997)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 964 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Javier?

We estimate roughly 636 thousand people bear Javier (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Javier have the most bearers?

Javier is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled javier.

How common is Javier compared with other names?

In Argentina, Javier is the 24th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

Is Javier a male or female name?

Javier is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Javier mean?

Recorded meaning: Spanish form of Xavier, Basque place-name 'new house'.