Meaning and background
The story behind Xavier
Xavier began as a surname associated with a Basque place name, Etxeberria, literally 'the new house'. It became a widely used personal name in connection with the sixteenth-century missionary Francis Xavier. In British English both ZAY-vee-uh and ig-ZAY-vee-uh are recorded, while French, Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan pronunciations differ. The route from place to surname to given name matters more than attaching an invented character trait to a dog called Xavier.
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