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 | |
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| 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 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
girls
1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 159,364 of them was named Javier, which outranked 52.3% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,130Yocelyne12
- #7,130Zaneta12
- #7,130Zaynab12
- #7,574Javier11
- #7,574Aaleyah11
- #7,574Aarin11
- #7,574Abbe11
- #8,132Aaliya10
- #8,132Aariel10
- #8,132Aarti10
Tied with 557 names at #7,574; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 843 of them was named Javier, which outranked 98.5% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.