Octave

Where Octave comes from

Octave hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1848
    Octave Mirbeau born
    French writer, art critic and journalist
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #640 among boys — 9 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1887
    Octave Lapize born
    French racing cyclist
  4. 1892
    Peak, #597
    12 babies named Octave — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1893
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Octave Mirbeau · French writer, art critic and journalist, 1848–1917
  • Octave Lapize · French racing cyclist, 1887–1917
  • Octave Feuillet · French writer, 1821–1890
  • Octave Chanute · French-American aviation pioneer, 1832–1910
  • Octave Crémazie · Canadian poet, 1827–1879

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.