Meaning not yet researched.
Javier: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,252 in 2025. Its best rank was #149 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #149 in 2001; #274 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Javier in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#274 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #149.
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Javier: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,252 boys in 2025. Peak: #149 in 2001 · most boys in one year: 2,637 (2001).
In 2025, 1,252 US boys were named Javier, making it the 274th most common boys’ name of the year, down 27 places from #247 in 2024. That is 191 fewer than the 1,443 boys named Javier in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #149, reached in 2001. That year also had the most boys given the name: 2,637. For comparison, it was #226 in 2015 and #440 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Javier in 108 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 5 babies. In all, 108,463 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 24,702 babies named Javier.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 14,902 US boys were named Javier; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 1,644. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,364 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Javier ranked highest in California in 2025, at #149 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Xavier (161,200 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Javar, Jabier and Jayvier are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Javar (714), Jabier (336), Jayvier (282), Jaiveer (248), Jahvier (154), Javiar (59), Jayveer (34), Jaiver (21), Javir (11), Javair (10), Javiere (10), Javiair (5), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Javier in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 16 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 262 | #149 | #138 |
| Delaware | 7 | #153 | — |
| Texas | 246 | #154 | #124 |
| Arizona | 49 | #178 | #141 |
| Washington | 37 | #215 | #240 |
| Nevada | 14 | #220 | #193 |
| Illinois | 54 | #220 | #196 |
| Colorado | 27 | #244 | #271 |
| Kansas | 15 | #252 | #193 |
| New Mexico | 8 | #252 | #105 |
| Oregon | 17 | #253 | #327 |
| Florida | 79 | #265 | #213 |
| Iowa | 15 | #267 | #366 |
| New Jersey | 31 | #285 | #211 |
| Georgia | 42 | #298 | #278 |
| South Carolina | 18 | #304 | #333 |
| Kentucky | 16 | #321 | #508 |
| Virginia | 25 | #335 | #267 |
| Oklahoma | 14 | #335 | #317 |
| North Carolina | 34 | #343 | #319 |
| Indiana | 22 | #345 | #365 |
| Arkansas | 9 | #374 | #409 |
| Wisconsin | 13 | #399 | #464 |
| Minnesota | 14 | #399 | #376 |
| Ohio | 27 | #401 | #417 |
| Connecticut | 7 | #415 | #336 |
| Maryland | 12 | #421 | #321 |
| Tennessee | 18 | #443 | #321 |
| Alabama | 11 | #467 | #425 |
| Michigan | 18 | #469 | #290 |
| Missouri | 11 | #539 | #449 |
| New York | 29 | #550 | #298 |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #617 | #352 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #623 | #560 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #735 | #262 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 1,252 | #274 |
| 2024 | — | — | 1,443 | #247 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,212 | 1,471 | #239 |
| 2022 | — | — | 1,463 | #239 |
| 2021 | — | — | 1,425 | #249 |
| 2020 | — | — | 1,407 | #250 |
| 2019 | — | — | 1,612 | #235 |
| 2018 | — | — | 1,552 | #244 |
| 2017 | — | — | 1,644 | #231 |
| 2016 | — | — | 1,633 | #236 |
| 2015 | — | — | 1,702 | #226 |
| 2014 | — | — | 1,765 | #217 |
| 2013 | — | — | 1,684 | #223 |
| 2012 | — | — | 1,776 | #211 |
| 2011 | — | — | 1,884 | #194 |
| 2010 | — | — | 1,952 | #190 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,329 | 2,017 | #187 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,266 | 2,369 | #165 |
| 2007 | — | — | 2,554 | #163 |
| 2006 | — | — | 2,592 | #163 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,299 | 2,501 | #164 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,451 | 2,536 | #159 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,834 | 2,502 | #161 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,578 | 2,436 | #158 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,461 | 2,637 | #149 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,466 | 2,493 | #155 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,090 | 2,318 | #160 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,624 | 2,309 | #149 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,999 | 2,291 | #153 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,812 | 2,247 | #153 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,738 | 2,250 | #156 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,123 | 2,271 | #153 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,158 | 2,180 | #150 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,751 | 2,132 | #152 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,257 | 2,134 | #150 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,374 | 1,983 | #157 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,704 | 1,814 | #166 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,554 | 1,570 | #181 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,410 | 1,529 | #179 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,360 | 1,427 | #184 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,798 | 1,425 | #182 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,473 | 1,389 | #181 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,761 | 1,423 | #181 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,937 | 1,292 | #193 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,381 | 1,306 | #192 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,661 | 1,307 | #186 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,108 | 1,140 | #208 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,029 | 1,157 | #198 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,847 | 1,115 | #203 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,755 | 1,055 | #206 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,145 | 1,110 | #200 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,506 | 1,060 | #210 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,667 | 1,036 | #209 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,183 | 901 | #238 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,886 | 966 | #240 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,195 | 912 | #253 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,957 | 808 | #259 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,318 | 739 | #268 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,198 | 793 | #254 |
| 1966 | — | — | 738 | #270 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,916 | 574 | #319 |
| 1964 | — | — | 587 | #322 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,152 | 584 | #327 |
| 1962 | — | — | 587 | #323 |
| 1961 | — | — | 531 | #341 |
| 1960 | — | — | 482 | #355 |
| 1959 | — | — | 436 | #380 |
| 1958 | — | — | 332 | #431 |
| 1957 | — | — | 323 | #433 |
| 1956 | — | — | 339 | #414 |
| 1955 | — | — | 283 | #437 |
| 1954 | — | — | 246 | #463 |
| 1953 | — | — | 267 | #435 |
| 1952 | — | — | 251 | #447 |
| 1951 | — | — | 194 | #487 |
| 1950 | — | — | 228 | #440 |
| 1949 | — | — | 152 | #541 |
| 1948 | — | — | 106 | #660 |
| 1947 | — | — | 110 | #659 |
| 1946 | — | — | 109 | #616 |
| 1945 | — | — | 78 | #687 |
| 1944 | — | — | 51 | #892 |
| 1943 | — | — | 54 | #910 |
| 1942 | — | — | 56 | #885 |
| 1941 | — | — | 46 | #946 |
| 1940 | — | — | 47 | #934 |
| 1939 | — | — | 35 | #1,094 |
| 1938 | — | — | 32 | #1,158 |
| 1937 | — | — | 32 | #1,172 |
| 1936 | — | — | 27 | #1,285 |
| 1935 | — | — | 27 | #1,310 |
| 1934 | — | — | 31 | #1,202 |
| 1933 | — | — | 28 | #1,264 |
| 1932 | — | — | 36 | #1,130 |
| 1931 | — | — | 31 | #1,247 |
| 1930 | — | — | 42 | #1,075 |
| 1929 | — | — | 36 | #1,165 |
| 1928 | — | — | 18 | #1,870 |
| 1927 | — | — | 19 | #1,840 |
| 1926 | — | — | 18 | #1,871 |
| 1925 | — | — | 13 | #2,368 |
| 1924 | — | — | 11 | #2,737 |
| 1923 | — | — | 15 | #2,176 |
| 1922 | — | — | 13 | #2,408 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,655 |
| 1920 | — | — | 7 | #3,642 |
| 1919 | — | — | 6 | #3,940 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,267 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).