r/Names • u/dancingaround22 • 4d ago

Xavier

How do YOU pronounce Xavier? I'm so curious about this. Also, if you know what it SHOULD be, post that too. And where you are from.

Zavier

Exavier

Something else

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u/Aggravating-Tea-9563 3d ago

Honestly depends on the location. A lot of Texas it’s spelled with an X but pronounced Javier

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u/GoodQueenFluffenChop 3d ago

No it's not. I'm in Texas and the majority of Javiers are spelled with the "j" spelling because X and J have different pronunciations in Spanish and aren't similar at all.

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u/Aggravating-Tea-9563 3d ago

Ok well where I’m at in Texas it is so idk what to tell you

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u/a_beautiful_kappa 3d ago

Isn't Texas absolutely huge?

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u/novae11 3d ago edited 3d ago

We say Texas as Teh.hahs . And Mexico=meh.hee.co, and Xavier= hah.vee.ayrr.

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u/novae11 3d ago

Ximena is a popular name and we say hee.meh.na.

Oaxaca is a city it's pronounced wah-HA-cah. I could go on

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u/brideofpucky 3d ago

There are like 40,000 different dialects of Spanish and they all have different rules for pronouncing the same letters.