How would you pronounce...

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Xavier?

If you saw the name Xavier written down and had to say it out loud, how would you pronounce it?

I know there are different ways to pronounce, I just want to see what the most common is.

Would be useful to know if you're British or from elsewhere (as I know this may influence pronunciation).

Thanks for your help!

Zay-vee-err but blended rather than 3 distinct syllables. That’s how the adult Xavier I know says it. I’m british.

Australian. I'd say it zay-vee-ar with the syllables sort of blurred together

I've known two, one pronounced it Zay-ve-uh (like saviour but with a Z) which is how I'd normally say it (I'm British, so is he), and the other was closer to Zha-ve-ay.

Australian here too- know about 5 Xaviers in my circle (from 52-3 years old). All pronounced Zayv-ya. Definitely 2 syllables.

Tilly’s pronunciation is good. (Zha-ve-ay.) Although I only know the Spanish version (Hav-e-ER) But I keep hearing the anglicised version of Zay-vee-er. I am not so keen on this pronunciation.

Za-vee-ay...but I'm probably wrong, lol!

Also Australian. Growing up I would have pronounced it as Zay-vee-ar. I was taught by Irish nuns at a time when St Francis Xavier was one of Australia's patron saints - I don't know if he still is, or if Mary McKillop has superseded him - and that's how they pronounce it.

But more recently whilst I was teaching, we had children, in two different schools: one family was Cuban and the other was from somewhere in southern Spain (Andalusia? can't remember) and they pronounced it something like Harv-yair. The Y wasn't a separate syllable, and it sounded rather nice.

Za-vee-ay. It’s the French pronunciation but I am British. I have only ever known French people with this name.

Za vee ay also in my opinion (British who knows 1 whose mum pronounced it this way ..)

Zay-vee-uh

Saviour but with a Z. Im British

Definitely Zay-veee-a
However I know someone who pronounces theirs as X-aaaaa-veeeee-a 🙄
In the UK.

Zav ee ay - British. Zay vee er and ex ay vee er both sound awful in my opinion. British.

Zav- ee - ay.

Za-vee-ah

White British northern parents, southern upbringing
Zave. Eeee. Ayy
But I’d hope to hear the parents say it first as I’ve heard it pronounced
Have Eee Ayyy & Ex Av Ie Ay

One wee chap I know calls himself Zac! As he got ged up of spelling it to people and correcting mispronunciations

I've never met one in real life.. I would have pronounced the X but not completely so something like - eck-zay-vee-ar

Xa vee eh

And the Xa is something like Gsa

Zayvee-er, am Irish and know an Irish one and that's how he pronounces it.

When I read it my mind say X a vee uh, but I know it's Zavi uh or some variation which sounds bad in my accent.

I only know it as a Spanish name pronounced Hav-e-ar

I’m British. Never heard of anyone pronouncing it with an actual Z

Zav-eee-ay

I'm British but lived in France for years, and my dd would have been Xavier if she'd been a boy.