Borrowed from Basque Xabier, ultimately from Basque etxeberria (“the new house”).
a male given name from Spanish [in turn from Basque], equivalent to English Xavier
Toponymic surname of a 16th-century saint born in the Kingdom of Navarre, Francis de Xavier, from a place name in the Kingdom of Navarre, originally from Basque Xabier. Doublet…
A name given to one of the Magi in Western church tradition, from Biblical Hebrew גִּזְבָּר (gizbar), ultimately from Old Median *ganǰabarah; see it for more. Compare Hatran…
Borrowed from Basque Xabier, ultimately from Basque etxeberria (“the new house”).
a male given name from Spanish [in turn from Basque], equivalent to English Xavier