Octavius
Last seen for girls in 1990 at #12,958 · #2,056 for boys in 2025, 72 births
Given to boys 99.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1987 · 106 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,687since 1911
Octavius over time
Rank among boys' names. Octavius has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,056 | 72 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,997 | 77 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,817 | 88 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,875 | 84 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,700 | 96 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,778 | 85 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,110 | 68 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,994 | 73 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,295 | 57 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,477 | 51 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,300 | 57 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,754 | 43 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,424 | 51 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,002 | 38 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,904 | 40 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,262 | 57 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,287 | 57 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,028 | 69 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,372 | 54 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,659 | 44 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,467 | 46 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,953 | 34 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,349 | 45 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,125 | 50 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,027 | 52 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,666 | 69 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,655 | 64 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,719 | 59 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,550 | 66 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,533 | 65 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,244 | 87 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,268 | 85 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,108 | 102 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,395 | 66 | |
| 1991 | — | #945 | 126 | |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #1,096 | 95 |
| 1989 | — | #1,154 | 84 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,013 | 93 | |
| 1987 | — | #914 | 106 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,127 | 70 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,268 | 57 | |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | #1,349 | 49 |
| 1983 | — | #1,205 | 57 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,362 | 48 | |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | #1,125 | 66 |
| 1980 | — | #1,258 | 54 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,108 | 65 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,040 | 70 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,268 | 49 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,067 | 61 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,238 | 47 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,171 | 50 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,268 | 42 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,230 | 45 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,526 | 32 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,582 | 29 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,549 | 12 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,445 | 12 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,985 | 8 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,327 | 12 | |
| 1965 | — | — | ||
| 1964 | — | #2,665 | 10 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,044 | 8 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,305 | 7 | |
| 1961 | — | — | ||
| 1960 | — | #2,871 | 9 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
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| 1953 | — | #3,425 | 6 | |
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| 1948 | — | #3,316 | 6 | |
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| 1934 | — | #3,679 | 5 | |
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| 1928 | — | #3,357 | 7 | |
| 1927 | — | — | ||
| 1926 | — | #3,708 | 6 | |
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| 1923 | — | #3,822 | 6 | |
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| 1920 | — | #4,286 | 5 | |
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| 1917 | — | #3,981 | 5 | |
| 1916 | — | #3,516 | 6 | |
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| 1911 | — | #1,537 | 6 | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Octavius! It came in at #1,537, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1912–1915, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Octavius
- 59 spots since 2024 (#1,997 → #2,056)
- 278 spots since 2020 (#1,778 → #2,056)
- 244 spots since 2015 (#2,300 → #2,056)
- Biggest jump: 213 spots in 1987 (#1,127 → #914)
- Biggest drop: 450 spots in 1992 (#945 → #1,395)
- Debuted 1911
- Peaked 1987 at #914 (106 births)
- Births halved by 2001, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 1987–1991
- Highest: 1 in 16,034 boys born in 1991 were named Octavius (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 23,723 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #914 in 1987, was only 1 in 17,613 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 22.1% of all boys named Octavius (815) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 17 | #1,537 (1911) | #3,011 |
| 1920s | 24 | #3,357 (1928) | #3,793 |
| 1930s | 5 | #3,679 (1934) | #3,679 |
| 1940s | 6 | #3,316 (1948) | #3,316 |
| 1950s | 11 | #3,425 (1953) | #3,707 |
| 1960s | 78 | #2,327 (1966) | #2,774 |
| 1970s | 490 | #1,040 (1978) | #1,250 |
| 1980s | 684 | #914 (1987) | #1,178 |
| 1990s | 815 | #945 (1991) | #1,351 |
| 2000s | 520 | #1,666 (2000) | #2,293 |
| 2010s | 535 | #1,994 (2018) | #2,452 |
| 2020s | 502 | #1,700 (2021) | #1,871 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Octavius in 1990
Top girls' names in 1990
Top boys' names in 1990
More about 1990
girls
1,898,547 girls got a published name in 1990; 1 in 379,709 of them was named Octavius, which outranked 14.9% of the 15,234 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
2,054,038 boys got a published name in 1990; 1 in 21,621 of them was named Octavius, which outranked 88.5% of the 9,493 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 19.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,086London96
- #1,086Menachem96
- #1,086Tariq96
- #1,096Octavius95
- #1,096Asher95
- #1,096Fredy95
- #1,096Hank95
- #1,102Danial94
- #1,102Devonte94
- #1,102Donavon94
Tied with 5 names at #1,096; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.