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Last given to 6 baby boys born in the USA (2012).
Xabier "Xabi" Prieto Argarate is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Real Sociedad mainly as a right midfielder.A player of good dribbling skills, he is also a penalty kick specialist.
Xabier Fernández Gaztañaga is a Spanish sailor and olympic champion. Fernandez won a gold medal in the 49er class with Iker Martínez at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. The same pairing won the silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Xabier "Xabi" Alonso Olano is a Spanish footballer who plays for German club Bayern Munich as a central midfielder.
Xabier Arzalluz Antia is a Basque nationalist politician, who was the leader of the Basque Nationalist Party from 1979 until 2004. He is a nationalist and a Christian Democrat. He was also the most powerful politician in Basque Country, and made all strategic decisions in the Basque Nationalist Party from 1986 onwards.
The X in Galician is also pronounced SH.
I've always liked names that start with x as they're unique and hardly ever seen nowadays.
The Basque pronunciation of X is actually 'Ch' so this is pronounced more like 'Chabier'. A nickname for this name is Xabi 'Chabi.' A famous bearer is Xabier 'Xabi' Alonso, the Basque footballer who plays for Spain and the English team Liverpool.
It is not pronounced with a 'Ch', that's the way the Catalan speakers say it in Catalan - they also write with a -V as in 'Xavier'. In Basque -or at least in most of its dialects- it's pronounced 'Sh'.
In Spanish the 'x' is pronounced lisp-like, more like a 'tha'.

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