Meaning not yet researched.
Xander: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,335 in 2025. Its best rank was #164 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #164 in 2017; #259 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Xander in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#259 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #164.
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Xander: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,335 boys in 2025. Peak: #164 in 2017 · most boys in one year: 2,414 (2017).
In 2025, 1,335 US boys were named Xander, making it the 259th most common boys’ name of the year, down 44 places from #215 in 2024. That is 336 fewer than the 1,671 boys named Xander in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #164, reached in 2017. That year also had the most boys given the name: 2,414. For comparison, it was #206 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Xander in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1990 with 5 babies. In all, 40,349 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 19,351 babies named Xander.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 19,734 US boys were named Xander; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 2,414. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,279 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Xander ranked highest in Rhode Island in 2025, at #139 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Alexander (740,668 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Xzander, Xandyr and Xandar 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: Xzander (711), Xandyr (71), Xandar (27), Xandir (11), Xannder (5).
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 Xander 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 11 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhode Island | 9 | #139 | #125 |
| New Mexico | 12 | #177 | #204 |
| Nevada | 16 | #200 | #166 |
| California | 185 | #202 | #253 |
| Kentucky | 27 | #212 | #180 |
| Florida | 101 | #213 | #206 |
| Pennsylvania | 54 | #229 | #177 |
| Connecticut | 15 | #237 | #245 |
| Mississippi | 14 | #237 | #421 |
| Missouri | 30 | #244 | #193 |
| Alabama | 22 | #259 | #274 |
| Minnesota | 24 | #261 | #210 |
| Massachusetts | 23 | #263 | #269 |
| Louisiana | 20 | #264 | #264 |
| Arizona | 31 | #265 | #158 |
| Texas | 150 | #266 | #232 |
| Washington | 28 | #270 | #149 |
| Wisconsin | 22 | #272 | #187 |
| Arkansas | 14 | #272 | #145 |
| Michigan | 37 | #275 | #170 |
| Kansas | 14 | #276 | #164 |
| New York | 67 | #280 | #265 |
| Oklahoma | 18 | #280 | #164 |
| Ohio | 44 | #282 | #166 |
| Maryland | 20 | #284 | #204 |
| North Carolina | 44 | #285 | #224 |
| Tennessee | 30 | #298 | #193 |
| New Jersey | 30 | #300 | #358 |
| Illinois | 35 | #315 | #211 |
| Georgia | 39 | #321 | #316 |
| West Virginia | 6 | #326 | #115 |
| Utah | 15 | #326 | #123 |
| Virginia | 23 | #364 | #288 |
| Colorado | 18 | #365 | #206 |
| Oregon | 11 | #375 | #162 |
| Idaho | 7 | #375 | #116 |
| Indiana | 20 | #378 | #190 |
| Iowa | 9 | #397 | #180 |
| South Carolina | 13 | #413 | #341 |
| Nebraska | 6 | #430 | #151 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 1,335 | #259 |
| 2024 | — | — | 1,671 | #215 |
| 2023 | 5 | #17,487 | 1,713 | #215 |
| 2022 | — | — | 1,899 | #200 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,259 | 2,018 | #187 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,400 | 2,057 | #187 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,312 | 2,335 | #169 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,408 | 2,275 | #171 |
| 2017 | 7 | #14,040 | 2,414 | #164 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,812 | 2,017 | #201 |
| 2015 | — | — | 1,933 | #206 |
| 2014 | — | — | 1,839 | #211 |
| 2013 | — | — | 1,699 | #220 |
| 2012 | — | — | 1,715 | #216 |
| 2011 | — | — | 1,733 | #205 |
| 2010 | — | — | 1,357 | #253 |
| 2009 | — | — | 1,447 | #245 |
| 2008 | — | — | 1,295 | #268 |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,434 | 1,227 | #282 |
| 2006 | — | — | 1,238 | #280 |
| 2005 | — | — | 1,202 | #280 |
| 2004 | 7 | #14,118 | 1,274 | #260 |
| 2003 | — | — | 1,424 | #234 |
| 2002 | — | — | 408 | #544 |
| 2001 | — | — | 229 | #755 |
| 2000 | — | — | 165 | #929 |
| 1999 | — | — | 159 | #925 |
| 1998 | — | — | 89 | #1,346 |
| 1997 | — | — | 34 | #2,445 |
| 1996 | — | — | 17 | #4,014 |
| 1995 | — | — | 13 | #4,786 |
| 1994 | — | — | 16 | #4,087 |
| 1993 | — | — | 14 | #4,441 |
| 1992 | — | — | 9 | #6,115 |
| 1991 | — | — | 6 | #8,210 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #9,459 |
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).