Javier
Javier was given to 1,252 boys in 2025, #274 among boys’ names; 108,463 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 102,000 Americans named Javier and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 17 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Javier by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Javier mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Javier is “a male given name from Spanish.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Javier?
#274 among boys’ names, 2025
Javier fell from #226 in 2015 to #274 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.89 to 0.73 per 1,000.
2,646 babies in 2001, the peak
Javier peaked in 2001, when 2,646 babies were given it (2,637 boys, #149 among boys’ names). The 1,252 births of 2025 are 47% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,252 | #274 | 0.73 |
| 2024 | 1,443 | #247 | 0.84 |
| 2023 | 1,471 | #239 | 0.86 |
| 2022 | 1,463 | #239 | 0.84 |
| 2021 | 1,425 | #249 | 0.81 |
| 2020 | 1,407 | #250 | 0.82 |
| 2019 | 1,612 | #235 | 0.90 |
| 2018 | 1,552 | #244 | 0.85 |
| 2017 | 1,644 | #231 | 0.89 |
| 2016 | 1,633 | #236 | 0.86 |
Every recorded year (108)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,702 | #226 | 0.89 |
| 2014 | 1,765 | #217 | 0.92 |
| 2013 | 1,684 | #223 | 0.89 |
| 2012 | 1,776 | #211 | 0.94 |
| 2011 | 1,884 | #194 | 1.0 |
| 2010 | 1,952 | #190 | 1.0 |
| 2009 | 2,017 | #187 | 1.0 |
| 2008 | 2,369 | #165 | 1.2 |
| 2007 | 2,554 | #163 | 1.2 |
| 2006 | 2,592 | #163 | 1.3 |
| 2005 | 2,501 | #164 | 1.3 |
| 2004 | 2,536 | #159 | 1.3 |
| 2003 | 2,502 | #161 | 1.3 |
| 2002 | 2,436 | #158 | 1.3 |
| 2001 | 2,637 | #149 | 1.4 |
| 2000 | 2,493 | #155 | 1.3 |
| 1999 | 2,318 | #160 | 1.2 |
| 1998 | 2,309 | #149 | 1.2 |
| 1997 | 2,291 | #153 | 1.2 |
| 1996 | 2,247 | #153 | 1.2 |
| 1995 | 2,250 | #156 | 1.2 |
| 1994 | 2,271 | #153 | 1.2 |
| 1993 | 2,180 | #150 | 1.1 |
| 1992 | 2,132 | #152 | 1.1 |
| 1991 | 2,134 | #150 | 1.1 |
| 1990 | 1,983 | #157 | 1.0 |
| 1989 | 1,814 | #166 | 0.91 |
| 1988 | 1,570 | #181 | 0.82 |
| 1987 | 1,529 | #179 | 0.82 |
| 1986 | 1,427 | #184 | 0.77 |
| 1985 | 1,425 | #182 | 0.77 |
| 1984 | 1,389 | #181 | 0.77 |
| 1983 | 1,423 | #181 | 0.79 |
| 1982 | 1,292 | #193 | 0.71 |
| 1981 | 1,306 | #192 | 0.73 |
| 1980 | 1,307 | #186 | 0.73 |
| 1979 | 1,140 | #208 | 0.66 |
| 1978 | 1,157 | #198 | 0.70 |
| 1977 | 1,115 | #203 | 0.68 |
| 1976 | 1,055 | #206 | 0.67 |
| 1975 | 1,110 | #200 | 0.71 |
| 1974 | 1,060 | #210 | 0.67 |
| 1973 | 1,036 | #209 | 0.66 |
| 1972 | 901 | #238 | 0.56 |
| 1971 | 966 | #240 | 0.55 |
| 1970 | 912 | #253 | 0.49 |
| 1969 | 808 | #259 | 0.45 |
| 1968 | 739 | #268 | 0.43 |
| 1967 | 793 | #254 | 0.45 |
| 1966 | 738 | #270 | 0.41 |
| 1965 | 574 | #319 | 0.31 |
| 1964 | 587 | #322 | 0.29 |
| 1963 | 584 | #327 | 0.29 |
| 1962 | 587 | #323 | 0.28 |
| 1961 | 531 | #341 | 0.25 |
| 1960 | 482 | #355 | 0.23 |
| 1959 | 436 | #380 | 0.20 |
| 1958 | 332 | #431 | 0.16 |
| 1957 | 323 | #432 | 0.15 |
| 1956 | 339 | #413 | 0.16 |
| 1955 | 283 | #436 | 0.14 |
| 1954 | 246 | #462 | 0.12 |
| 1953 | 267 | #434 | 0.14 |
| 1952 | 251 | #446 | 0.13 |
| 1951 | 194 | #486 | 0.10 |
| 1950 | 228 | #439 | 0.13 |
| 1949 | 152 | #540 | 0.09 |
| 1948 | 106 | #659 | 0.06 |
| 1947 | 110 | #659 | 0.06 |
| 1946 | 109 | #616 | 0.07 |
| 1945 | 78 | #687 | 0.06 |
| 1944 | 51 | #892 | 0.04 |
| 1943 | 54 | #910 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 56 | #885 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 46 | #946 | 0.04 |
| 1940 | 47 | #934 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 35 | #1,094 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 32 | #1,158 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 32 | #1,172 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 27 | #1,285 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 27 | #1,310 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 31 | #1,202 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 28 | #1,264 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 36 | #1,130 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 31 | #1,247 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 42 | #1,075 | 0.04 |
| 1929 | 36 | #1,165 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 18 | #1,870 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 19 | #1,840 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 18 | #1,871 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,367 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 11 | #2,736 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,175 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,407 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,653 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,641 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 6 | #3,939 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,266 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Javier a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Javier has been given almost only to boys: 494 girls in 108 years of records.
Girls and boys named Javier: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Javier, and how old are they?
102,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 108,463 Americans ever recorded as Javier. The median Javier alive today is 27 years old; half are between 17 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 158,810 people named Javier (353 women and girls, 158,457 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 95,752 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 164 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4,350 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 13,800 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 27,300 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 36,600 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 19,900 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Javier born?
The states with the most babies named Javier are California, Texas and Florida, with 48% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 262 | #149 | 2.4× |
| Texas | 246 | #154 | 2.8× |
| Florida | 79 | #265 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 54 | #220 | 1.1× |
| Arizona | 49 | #178 | 1.9× |
| Georgia | 42 | #298 | 0.5× |
| Washington | 37 | #215 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 34 | #343 | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 31 | #285 | 0.8× |
| New York | 29 | #550 | 0.8× |
Where Javier is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Javier is most over-represented in Texas: since 1917 it was given 2.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Javier with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 109,920 babies since 1880, Javier is the most given (99% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,252 of their 1,283 babies (98%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Javier
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Javier and names like it
- Compare Javier and JavarBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJavier peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Javier since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Javier: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Javier.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Javier alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.