Javier
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #15,194 · #274 for boys in 2025, 1,252 births
Given to boys 99.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2001 · 2,637 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 107,969since 1917
Javier over time
Rank among boys' names. Javier has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #274 | 1,252 | |
| 2024 | — | #247 | 1,443 | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #239 | 1,471 |
| 2022 | — | #239 | 1,463 | |
| 2021 | — | #249 | 1,425 | |
| 2020 | — | #250 | 1,407 | |
| 2019 | — | #235 | 1,612 | |
| 2018 | — | #244 | 1,552 | |
| 2017 | — | #231 | 1,644 | |
| 2016 | — | #236 | 1,633 | |
| 2015 | — | #226 | 1,702 | |
| 2014 | — | #217 | 1,765 | |
| 2013 | — | #223 | 1,684 | |
| 2012 | — | #211 | 1,776 | |
| 2011 | — | #194 | 1,884 | |
| 2010 | — | #190 | 1,952 | |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | #187 | 2,017 |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | #165 | 2,369 |
| 2007 | — | #163 | 2,554 | |
| 2006 | — | #163 | 2,592 | |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | #164 | 2,501 |
| 2004 | #8,259 | 13 | #159 | 2,536 |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #161 | 2,502 |
| 2002 | #10,246 | 9 | #158 | 2,436 |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 | #149 | 2,637 |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 | #155 | 2,493 |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 | #160 | 2,318 |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 | #149 | 2,309 |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 | #153 | 2,291 |
| 1996 | #7,574 | 11 | #153 | 2,247 |
| 1995 | #7,514 | 11 | #156 | 2,250 |
| 1994 | #5,984 | 15 | #153 | 2,271 |
| 1993 | #4,100 | 25 | #150 | 2,180 |
| 1992 | #4,686 | 21 | #152 | 2,132 |
| 1991 | #4,208 | 24 | #150 | 2,134 |
| 1990 | #5,286 | 17 | #157 | 1,983 |
| 1989 | #6,531 | 12 | #166 | 1,814 |
| 1988 | #4,496 | 19 | #181 | 1,570 |
| 1987 | #5,312 | 14 | #179 | 1,529 |
| 1986 | #7,134 | 9 | #184 | 1,427 |
| 1985 | #5,678 | 12 | #182 | 1,425 |
| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 | #181 | 1,389 |
| 1983 | #4,686 | 15 | #181 | 1,423 |
| 1982 | #3,898 | 20 | #193 | 1,292 |
| 1981 | #5,254 | 13 | #192 | 1,306 |
| 1980 | #5,544 | 12 | #186 | 1,307 |
| 1979 | #4,052 | 18 | #208 | 1,140 |
| 1978 | #4,931 | 13 | #198 | 1,157 |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 | #203 | 1,115 |
| 1976 | #5,601 | 10 | #206 | 1,055 |
| 1975 | #5,984 | 9 | #200 | 1,110 |
| 1974 | #5,360 | 10 | #210 | 1,060 |
| 1973 | #4,586 | 12 | #209 | 1,036 |
| 1972 | #5,959 | 8 | #238 | 901 |
| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 | #240 | 966 |
| 1970 | #5,061 | 10 | #253 | 912 |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 | #259 | 808 |
| 1968 | #5,147 | 8 | #268 | 739 |
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 | #254 | 793 |
| 1966 | — | #270 | 738 | |
| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 | #319 | 574 |
| 1964 | — | #322 | 587 | |
| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 | #327 | 584 |
| 1962 | — | #323 | 587 | |
| 1961 | — | #341 | 531 | |
| 1960 | — | #354 | 482 | |
| 1959 | — | #379 | 436 | |
| 1958 | — | #431 | 332 | |
| 1957 | — | #433 | 323 | |
| 1956 | — | #414 | 339 | |
| 1955 | — | #437 | 283 | |
| 1954 | — | #462 | 246 | |
| 1953 | — | #435 | 267 | |
| 1952 | — | #445 | 251 | |
| 1951 | — | #485 | 194 | |
| 1950 | — | #440 | 228 | |
| 1949 | — | #541 | 152 | |
| 1948 | — | #658 | 106 | |
| 1947 | — | #658 | 110 | |
| 1946 | — | #615 | 109 | |
| 1945 | — | #684 | 78 | |
| 1944 | — | #888 | 51 | |
| 1943 | — | #908 | 54 | |
| 1942 | — | #876 | 56 | |
| 1941 | — | #938 | 46 | |
| 1940 | — | #929 | 47 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,085 | 35 | |
| 1938 | — | #1,149 | 32 | |
| 1937 | — | #1,168 | 32 | |
| 1936 | — | #1,271 | 27 | |
| 1935 | — | #1,295 | 27 | |
| 1934 | — | #1,189 | 31 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,251 | 28 | |
| 1932 | — | #1,126 | 36 | |
| 1931 | — | #1,239 | 31 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,069 | 42 | |
| 1929 | — | #1,154 | 36 | |
| 1928 | — | #1,822 | 18 | |
| 1927 | — | #1,796 | 19 | |
| 1926 | — | #1,846 | 18 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,313 | 13 | |
| 1924 | — | #2,641 | 11 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,123 | 15 | |
| 1922 | — | #2,347 | 13 | |
| 1921 | — | #4,322 | 5 | |
| 1920 | — | #3,489 | 7 | |
| 1919 | — | #3,736 | 6 | |
| 1918 | — | — | ||
| 1917 | — | #3,981 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Javier! It came in at #3,981, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1917–1918, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Javier
- 27 spots since 2024 (#247 → #274)
- 24 spots since 2020 (#250 → #274)
- 48 spots since 2015 (#226 → #274)
- Biggest jump: 204 spots in 1945 (#888 → #684)
- Biggest drop: 45 spots in 1951 (#440 → #485)
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 2001 at #149 (2,637 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 24 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 86 yrs · run 1940–2025
- Highest: 1 in 737 boys born in 2001 were named Javier (0.14%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,364 boys born in 2025 (0.07%)
- 22.8% of all boys named Javier (24,637) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 11 | #3,736 (1919) | #3,859 |
| 1920s | 155 | #1,154 (1929) | #2,385 |
| 1930s | 321 | #1,069 (1930) | #1,184 |
| 1940s | 809 | #541 (1949) | #770 |
| 1950s | 2,899 | #379 (1959) | #436 |
| 1960s | 6,423 | #254 (1967) | #304 |
| 1970s | 10,452 | #198 (1978) | #217 |
| 1980s | 14,482 | #166 (1989) | #183 |
| 1990s | 22,115 | #149 (1998) | #153 |
| 2000s | 24,637 | #149 (2001) | #162 |
| 2010s | 17,204 | #190 (2010) | #221 |
| 2020s | 8,461 | #239 (2023) | #250 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Javier in 1971
Top girls' names in 1971
Top boys' names in 1971
More about 1971
girls
1,663,823 girls got a published name in 1971; 1 in 237,689 of them was named Javier, which outranked 31.4% of the 9,645 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,006Yumiko8
- #6,006Zinnia8
- #6,006Zorina8
- #6,619Javier7
- #6,619Abbi7
- #6,619Abena7
- #6,619Adonia7
- #7,388Abeer6
- #7,388Abigale6
- #7,388Adana6
Tied with 768 names at #6,619; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,768,447 boys got a published name in 1971; 1 in 1,831 of them was named Javier, which outranked 95.8% of the 5,655 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.