Xander
Xander was given to 1,335 boys in 2025, #259 among boys’ names; 40,349 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 40,000 Americans named Xander and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Xander by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Xander mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Xander is “a diminutive of the male given name Alexander, from Ancient Greek, of modern usage.”
/ˈzæn.dɚ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Xander?
#259 among boys’ names, 2025
Xander fell from #206 in 2015 to #259 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 1.0 to 0.78 per 1,000.
2,421 babies in 2017, the peak
Xander peaked in 2017, when 2,421 babies were given it (2,414 boys, #164 among boys’ names). The 1,335 births of 2025 are 55% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,335 | #259 | 0.78 |
| 2024 | 1,671 | #215 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 1,713 | #215 | 1.0 |
| 2022 | 1,899 | #200 | 1.1 |
| 2021 | 2,018 | #187 | 1.2 |
| 2020 | 2,057 | #187 | 1.2 |
| 2019 | 2,335 | #169 | 1.3 |
| 2018 | 2,275 | #171 | 1.3 |
| 2017 | 2,414 | #164 | 1.3 |
| 2016 | 2,017 | #201 | 1.1 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,933 | #206 | 1.0 |
| 2014 | 1,839 | #211 | 1.0 |
| 2013 | 1,699 | #220 | 0.90 |
| 2012 | 1,715 | #216 | 0.90 |
| 2011 | 1,733 | #205 | 0.91 |
| 2010 | 1,357 | #253 | 0.71 |
| 2009 | 1,447 | #245 | 0.73 |
| 2008 | 1,295 | #268 | 0.63 |
| 2007 | 1,227 | #282 | 0.59 |
| 2006 | 1,238 | #280 | 0.60 |
| 2005 | 1,202 | #280 | 0.60 |
| 2004 | 1,274 | #260 | 0.64 |
| 2003 | 1,424 | #234 | 0.72 |
| 2002 | 408 | #544 | 0.21 |
| 2001 | 229 | #754 | 0.12 |
| 2000 | 165 | #927 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 159 | #923 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 89 | #1,343 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 34 | #2,441 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 17 | #4,008 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,780 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 16 | #4,081 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 14 | #4,435 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 9 | #6,108 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 6 | #8,203 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #9,450 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Xander a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Xander has been given almost only to boys: 68 girls in 36 years of records.
Girls and boys named Xander: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Xander, and how old are they?
40,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 40,349 Americans ever recorded as Xander. The median Xander alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 27,442 people named Xander (99 women and girls, 27,343 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 29,900 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 77 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 14,800 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 25,100 |
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 Xander born?
The states with the most babies named Xander are California, Texas and Florida, with 33% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 185 | #202 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 150 | #266 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 101 | #213 | 1.0× |
| New York | 67 | #280 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 54 | #229 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 44 | #282 | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 44 | #285 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 39 | #321 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 37 | #275 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 35 | #315 | 0.8× |
Where Xander is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Xander is most over-represented in Utah: since 1990 it was given 1.6 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 Xander 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 40,420 babies since 1880, Xander is the most given (100% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,335 of their 1,335 babies (100%), 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 Xander
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 Xander and names like it
- Compare Xander and XandyrBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sXander peaked in 2017.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Xander since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Xander: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Xander.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Xander alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with XMost given first.