Xavier (given name)
The given name Xavier is a masculine name derived from the 16th-century Navarrese Roman Catholic Saint Francis Xavier.
Etymology
Xavier comes from the name of the Jesuit missionary saint Francis Xavier, where Xavier stands for his birthplace of Javier in the Kingdom of Navarre. The toponym is itself the romanization of the Basque place-name etxe berri, meaning 'castle', 'new house' or 'new home'.Usage in the United States
An increase in usage of the name in the United States has been attributed to the Marvel Comics character Charles Xavier, and the feature film version of that character played by Patrick Stewart.People
Arts
- Xavier Abraham, Spanish poet
- Xavier Abril, Peruvian poet
- Xavier Armange, French writer and illustrator
- Xavier Arsène-Henry, French modernist architect and urban planner
- Xavier Atencio, American animator for The Walt Disney Company
- Xavier Barbier de Montault, French liturgical writer
- Xavier Blum Pinto, Ecuadorian artist
- Xavier Beard American rapper
- Xavier Boniface Saintine, French dramatist and novelist
- Xavier Cortada, Cuban-American painter
- Xavier Cugat, Spanish-Cuban bandleader
- Xavier Davis, American jazz pianist
- Xavier de Planhol, French historical scholar
- Xavier Dolan, Canadian actor and filmmaker
- Xavier Fagnon, French voice actor
- Xavier Forneret, French poet, playwright and writer
- Xavier Fourcade, French American art dealer
- Xavier Herbert, Australian writer
- Xavier Lopez, American rapper and record producer
- Xavier Trudeau, Canadian singer-songwriter, son of former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
- Xavier Martinez, American artist of Mexican descent
- Xavier Naidoo, German singer-songwriter
- Xavier Pérez Grobet, Mexican cinematographer
- Xavior Roide aka Xav frontman of Romo band DexDexTer, live keyboard player with Placebo
- Xavier Rudd, Australian singer-songwriter
- Xavier Samuel, Australian actor
Law, military and politics
- Xavier Albertini, French politician
- Xavier Becerra, American politician
- Xavier Bertrand, French politician
- Xavier Bettel, Luxembourgish politician
- Xavier Bonnefont, French politician
- Xavier Bout de Marnhac, French military general
- Xavier Brasseur, Luxembourgish politician
- Xavier Breton, French politician
- Xavier Connor, Australian judge
- Xavier Coppolani, French military leader
- Xavier Darcos, French politician
- Xavier, Duke of Parma and Piacenza, pretender to the defunct throne of Parma, and Carlist claimant to the throne of Spain
- Xavier Kyooma, Ugandan politician
- Xavier de Magallon, French poet, translator and politician
- Xavier Sylvestre Yangongo, Central African military general and politician
- Xavier Espot Zamora, Andorran politician and current prime minister of Andorra
Sports
- Xavier Adibi, American football player
- Xavier Aguado, Spanish association football player
- Xabi Alonso, Spanish association football player
- Xavier Atkins, American football player
- Xabier Azkargorta, Spanish football player and manager
- Xavier Báez, Mexican association football player
- Xavier Barrau, French association football player
- Xavier Beitia, American AFL and college football player
- Xavier Bertoni, French freestyle skier
- Xavier Booker, American basketball player
- Xavier Capdevila Romero, Andorran ski mountaineer
- Xavier Carter, American track and field athlete
- Xavier Chen, Belgian association football player
- Xavier Clarke, indigenous Australian rules football player
- Xavier Coleman, American football player
- Xavier Comas Guixé, Andorran ski mountaineer
- Xavier Corosine, French basketball player
- Xavier Crawford, American football player
- Xavier Daufresne, Belgian tennis player
- Xavier Delisle, Canadian ice hockey player
- Xavier Dirceu, Brazilian association football player
- Xavier Doherty, Australian cricketer
- Xavier Dorfman, French Olympic rower
- Xavier Downwind, American NFL player
- Xavier Edwards, American baseball player
- Xavier Ellis, Australian rules football player
- Xavier Eluère, French Olympic boxer
- Xavier Escudé, Spanish Olympic field hockey player
- Xavier Florencio, Spanish road bicycle racer
- Xavier Fulton, American football player
- Xavier Gipson, American football player
- Xavier Guillory, American football player
- Xavier Henry, American basketball player
- Xavier Hernández Creus, commonly known as Xavi (footballer, born 1980), Spanish association football manager and former player
- Xavier Hutchinson, American football player
- Xavier Johnson (basketball), American basketball player
- Xavier Johnson (American football), American football player
- Xavier Jones, American football player
- Xavier Kelly, American football player
- Xavier Maassen, Dutch racing driver
- Xavier McDaniel, American basketball player
- Xavier McKinney, American football player
- Xavier Malisse, Belgian tennis player
- Xavier Margairaz, Swiss association football player
- Xavier Mitchell, American professional baseball player
- Xavier Munford, American basketball player
- Xavier Nady, American former baseball player
- Xavier Newman-Johnson, American football player
- Xavier Ouellet, French-Canadian ice hockey player
- Xavier Proctor, American football player
- Xavier Restrepo, American football player
- Xavier Rhodes, American football player
- Xavier Robinson, American football player
- Xavier Rush, New Zealand rugby player
- Xavier Silas, American basketball player
- Xavier Quentin Shay Simons or Xavi Simons, Dutch association football player
- Xavier Sneed, American basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
- Xavier Thomas, American football player
- Xavier Tillman, American basketball player
- Xavier Truss, American football player
- Xavier Watts, American football player
- Xavier Woods (American football), American football player
- Xavier Worthy, American football player
Other
- Xavier, Duke of Aquitaine
- Xabier Arzalluz, Basque nationalist politician
- Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and pathologist
- Xavier Briggs, American sociologist
- Xavier Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan journalist
- Xavier Ehrenbert Fridelli, Austrian Jesuit missionary
- Xavier Fernique, French mathematician
- Xavier Le Pichon, French geophysicist
- Xavier Mertz, Swiss explorer
- Xavier de Montclos,, French historian of religion
- Xavier Roberts, American inventor and manufacturer of Cabbage Patch Kids
- Xavier Rolet, French businessman and chief executive officer of the London Stock Exchange
- Francis Xavier Seelos, German Roman Catholic missionary
- Xavier Yap Jung Houn, Singaporean convicted double killer of his twin sons
- Xavier Zubiri, Spanish philosopher
Fictional characters
- Xavier, the main character of the animated series Xavier: Renegade Angel
- Xavier, a main character in the 2022 series The Afterparty, played by Dave Franco
- Xavier Austin, a character in the Australian soap opera Home and Away
- Xavier Benedict, a character in Julia Golding's Finding Sky book trilogy
- Xavier Bird, a character in Joseph Boyden's novel Three Day Road
- Xavier, a fictional red ruffed lemur from the animated film Night of the Zoopocalypse
- Xavier Chavez, a character in the film Saw II
- Xavier Desmond, a character in the George R. R. Martin book series Wild Cards
- Xavier Dolls, a character in the supernatural Western TV series Wynonna Earp
- Xavier Harkonnen, a character in the fictional Dune universe
- Brigadier General Frank Xavier Hummel, antagonist of the film The Rock
- Xavier March, protagonist of Robert Harris' novel Fatherland
- Xavier Quinn, protagonist of the film The Mighty Quinn
- Xavier Riddle, the main character in the PBS Kids animated series Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum
- Xavier Thorpe, a character in the Netflix series Wednesday
- Charles Francis Xavier, character appearing in Marvel Comics, depicted as the founder and occasional leader of the ''X-Men''