The name Xavier comes from the Basque place name Etxeberria, meaning "the new house." It started gaining popularity as a given name in the United States in the mid-1900s and cracked the Social Security Administration's top-200 for the first time in 1990. Xavier was a top-100 boy's name every year between 2001 and 2022, but fell back to 105th in 2023. It's the name former NBA player Dwyane Wade gave his son Xavier Zechariah, born in 2013, and is also the middle name given to "Different Strokes" actress Kim Fields' son Quincy Xavier, born in 2013, and "American Idol" winner Fantasia Barrino's son Dallas Xavier, born in 2011.
