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My guess that it's probably a Latinized form of a Persian name. I highly doubt it's connected to Xavier since that name came over a thousand years later. One thing to keep in mind is that many names from antiquity have fallen out of use, so I don't know if there are any modern Persian names that are close to it.

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At the time, Persia was part of the Sassanid Empire, which was quite large and included many regional languages, so the name could have come from a regional language like Aramaic, Scythian, or Georgian.

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