Javier is a boy's name of Spanish origin meaning “the new house.” In 2024 it was given to 1,435 boys in the United States.
Javier at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
“the new house”
About the name Javier
Javier belongs to the Spanish tradition. Its meaning — “the new house” — is the sense carried by its Spanish roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Javier first appears in Social Security records in 1917. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #149 in 1998, and in 2024 1,435 babies received the name — 106,700 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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