# Xaver (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/xaver/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 49 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 49 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 6 | 6,934 |
| 1988 | 12 | 4,156 |
| 1989 | 9 | 5,596 |
| 1993 | 5 | 10,121 |
| 2001 | 7 | 9,209 |
| 2006 | 5 | 13,951 |
| 2014 | 5 | 13,982 |

## People named Xaver

- Xaver Schlager, Austrian association football player
- Franz Xaver Gruber, Austrian composer (1787–1863)
- Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian composer, teacher and performer; youngest son of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1791-18
- Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Austrian composer and conductor
- Franz Xaver Richter, Austro-Moravian singer, violinist, composer, conductor and music theoretician
- Franz Xaver Fieber, German botanist and entomologist (1807-1872)
- Franz Xaver Nagl, Catholic cardinal (1855-1913)
- Xaver Schwarzenberger, Austrian cinematographer and film director
- František Xaver Dušek, Czech composer, pianist and harpsichordist
- Franz Xaver Dorsch, German civil engineer (1899–1986)
- Xaver Hörmann, Canoe racer (1910–1943)
- Franz Xaver von Wegele, German historian (1823–1897)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.