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Middle Names for Xavier

Our son's name is going to be Xavier. Originally I wanted it as his middle name, but DH and I couldn't come up with a first name we like more. We live part time in CO and part time in Spain so we will go with two pronunciations, which makes things more complicated (we both go by two pronunciations also, so it will be "normal" in our household, we found it helps us transition from one country to another when we change our names). In Spain we will go with hav-ee-air (but only two syllables, I suck at phonetic spelling) and in American we will go with ex-a-vee-er (3 syllables). We will not be using the French pronunciation of zav-ee-a or za-vee-er. I care more that the middle name goes with the X pronunciation because he will be educated here and that is really the only time middle names are used :) Our last name is one syllable, starting and ending with s. For the life of me, I cannot find anything that I like that goes with it. Ideas??
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Re: Middle Names for Xavier

  • ctanactana member

    Xavier is our son's middle name.  It's a family name, on my husband's side (he is Swiss so it is pronounced the French Zave-ee-er).  We went with Luke Xavier.

    As for MN's that go with Xavier I like:

     

    -Xavier Joseph

    -Xavier Ryan

    -Xavier Kent

    -Xavier Paul

    -Xavier Michael

    -Xavier Francis.

     

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  • Xavier William
    Xavier James
    Xavier Matthew
    Xavier Lucas
    Xavier Harrison
    Xavier Thomas
    Xavier Gray
    Xavier Roman
    Xavier Bennett
    Xavier Vincent


  • Xavier Thomas and Xavier Ryan are my favorites listed.

  • Xavier Allan

    Xavier Andrew

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  • Fwiw, I know a few Xaviers and I have heard from more than one, its annoying to hear it pronounced ex-ayv-ier.  They all pronounce it zay-vee-er.  I guess they have a point.  We don't say ex-zylophone, ex-zanax, or ex-zerox.
  • We were going to use Xavier and have Orion (pronounced O-ryan) be the middle name. Our last name begins with "O" so the intials would have been XOO which I think would've been neat but I was the only one so we're not using it.
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  • My SIL just named her baby boy Xavier James (pronounced za-vee-er).

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  • ctanactana member
    Yay for French pronunciation!
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