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A name. A world of connections.
A name with a story to discover
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01 / Meaning & origin
Xavery is recorded in NISRA — First Forenames Given to Babies Registered in Northern Ireland, 1997-2025 (full list) (1997–2025) and in Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce — first given names of children, PESEL register, 2000-2025 (national) (2000–2025), given to boys; no dictionary entry is in our sources yet.
No etymology is recorded in our sources for this spelling yet. The record exists because the name is documented in use; a meaning will be shown only once a cited source supports it.
02 / Across borders
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Poland, 2024: 3 boys (rank 591). Documented as a given name in Polish.
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03 / By the numbers
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2000–2025 Spelling: XAVERY
Recorded category boys
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Source: Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce — first given names of children, PESEL register, 2000-2025 (national)
No rounding stated by the publisher; counts are published as integers (valueStatus=observed).
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| Year | Births | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2001 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2002 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2003 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2004 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2005 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2006 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2007 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2008 | 5 | 434 | observed |
| 2009 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2010 | 5 | 432 | observed |
| 2011 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2012 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2013 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2014 | 5 | 469 | observed |
| 2015 | 3 | 595 | observed |
| 2016 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2017 | 2 | 599 | observed |
| 2018 | 4 | 429 | observed |
| 2019 | 2 | 598 | observed |
| 2020 | 2 | 582 | observed |
| 2021 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2022 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2023 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2024 | 3 | 591 | observed |
| 2025 | no value | no value | not covered |
Statistics count the spelling “XAVERY” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0
Read our methodology04 / Through time
Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.
Xavery— “bright”
The original saint of Assisi made devout Spaniards use Francisco and Francisca, before the fresh honour won for the first by two early Jesuits—the Duke of Gandia, the friend and guide of Charles V., and Xavier, the self-devoted apostle of the Indies. His surname has thrown out another stock. It is in itself Moorish, coming from the Arabic Ga’afar, splendid, the same as that of our old friend, the Giaffar of the _Arabian Nights_, the Jaffier of old historians. Wherever Jesuits…
The original saint of Assisi made devout Spaniards use Francisco and Francisca, before the fresh honour won for the first by two early Jesuits—the Duke of Gandia, the friend and guide of Charles V., and Xavier, the self-devoted apostle of the Indies. His surname has thrown out another stock. It is in itself Moorish, coming from the Arabic Ga’afar, splendid, the same as that of our old friend, the Giaffar of the _Arabian Nights_, the Jaffier of old historians. Wherever Jesuits have been, there it is; Savero in Italy, Xavier in France, Xaverie in Wallachia, Xavery in Poland, Saverij in Illyria; Xaveria for the feminine in Roman Catholic Germany, marking the course of the counter-Reformation. Even Ireland deals in Saverius, or Savy, though when English sailors meet a Spanish negro called Xaver, they call him Shaver! Savary de Bohnn, whom Dugdale places under Henry I., was probably a form of Sigeheri, or Saher, which may have been absorbed by Xaver in Roman Catholic lands.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VI, Chapter II (Names From Teuton Mythology), Section IV (Frey) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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06 / Behind the facts
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Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce — first given names of children, PESEL register, 2000-2025 (national)
Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji (Ministry of Digital Affairs), Poland — PESEL register; published on dane.gov.pl · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
NISRA — First Forenames Given to Babies Registered in Northern Ireland, 1997-2025 (full list)
Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
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