Javier
Javier is ranked 247th among boys in 2024 (1,435 births). Its best rank was 149th, in 1998, 2001.
- Rank in 2024
- #247down 8 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,4350.08% of boys
- Peak year
- 20012,637 births
- Best rank
- #149first in 1998
- Since 1917
- 106,700people given the name
The story in the numbers
106,700 boys have been named Javier in the United States since 1917, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2001, with 2,637 births — 0.14% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 217 → 247).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1998, and the 2000s alone account for 23%. It has spent 85 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Javier | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 11 | |
| 1920s | 155 | |
| 1930s | 321 | |
| 1940s | 809 | |
| 1950s | 2,900 | |
| 1960s | 6,423 | |
| 1970s | 10,450 | |
| 1980s | 14,481 | |
| 1990s | 22,116 | |
| 2000s | 24,635 | |
| 2010s | 17,200 | |
| 2020s | 7,199 |
In 2001, its biggest year
Javier was the 149th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2001 were Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 2001.
Names that rose and fell with Javier
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Marcopeak 2005
- Everardopeak 2004
- Marcospeak 2001
- Miguelpeak 2007
- Neftalipeak 2003
- Mathieupeak 2000
- Erickpeak 2007
- Noepeak 2007
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.