Xavier

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

From the Basque place name Etxaberri (today Javier) in Navarra (Spain) meaning 'new house' [1]

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Xavier
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Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Xaviersson Faroe Islands

Female

Xaviersdóttir Faroe Islands

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Xavier
Genitive: Xaviers
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Xavier
Genitive: Xavierin
Partitive: Xavieria
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Xavier
Accusative: Xavier
Dative: Xavier
Genitive: Xaviers
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Xavier
Genitive: Xaviers
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Xavier
Genitive: Xaviers

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 14 people were named Xavier (percentage of first or only given name: 7 %) [3]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[4]
162 450 0 3 162 447
Finland Finland[5]
n.a.
309 0 0
n.a.
309
Denmark Denmark[6]
97
n.a.
1
n.a.
96
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[7]
10 21
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[8]
91
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
91
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[9]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Xavier.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  4. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  5. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  6. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  8. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/