October
#3,712 for girls in 2025, 40 births · #8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
Given to girls 92.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2008 · 72 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,246since 1969
October over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #3,712 | 40 | #8,243 | 9 |
| 2024 | #3,575 | 43 | #6,832 | 12 |
| 2023 | #3,140 | 52 | #4,742 | 21 |
| 2022 | #2,639 | 66 | #7,262 | 11 |
| 2021 | #3,112 | 52 | #8,825 | 8 |
| 2020 | #2,890 | 56 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | #3,130 | 51 | #7,173 | 11 |
| 2018 | #2,711 | 63 | #10,760 | 6 |
| 2017 | #3,091 | 52 | #10,775 | 6 |
| 2016 | #2,966 | 56 | #10,744 | 6 |
| 2015 | #3,705 | 41 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,425 | 46 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,513 | 44 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,978 | 57 | — | |
| 2011 | #3,092 | 54 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,752 | 64 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,892 | 60 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,584 | 72 | — | |
| 2007 | #3,047 | 57 | — | |
| 2006 | #9,286 | 12 | — | |
| 2005 | #8,330 | 13 | — | |
| 2004 | — | — | ||
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | — | |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | — | |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | — | |
| 2000 | #9,874 | 9 | — | |
| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 | — | |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | — | |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 | — | |
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| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | — | |
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| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 | — | |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | — | |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 | — | |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | — | |
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| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | — | |
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| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | — | |
| 1981 | #6,323 | 10 | — | |
| 1980 | #4,978 | 14 | — | |
| 1979 | #4,626 | 15 | — | |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 | — | |
| 1977 | #3,366 | 22 | — | |
| 1976 | #3,963 | 16 | — | |
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| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | — | |
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| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named October! It came in at #7,471, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1969–1975, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about October
- 137 spots since 2024 (#3,575 → #3,712)
- 822 spots since 2020 (#2,890 → #3,712)
- 7 spots since 2015 (#3,705 → #3,712)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 2008 at #2,584 (72 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 24,850 girls born in 2022 were named October (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 40,182 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,584 in 2008, was only 1 in 26,263 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 42.4% of all girls named October (528) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #7,471 (1969) | #7,471 |
| 1970s | 65 | #3,366 (1977) | #5,676 |
| 1980s | 42 | #4,978 (1980) | #8,164 |
| 1990s | 50 | #7,742 (1997) | #10,932 |
| 2000s | 247 | #2,584 (2008) | #7,813 |
| 2010s | 528 | #2,711 (2018) | #3,136 |
| 2020s | 309 | #2,639 (2022) | #3,178 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
October in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
More about 2008
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1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 26,263 of them was named October, which outranked 87.4% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,557Tamiyah73
- #2,557Tyana73
- #2,557Zarah73
- #2,584October72
- #2,584Adalee72
- #2,584Allysa72
- #2,584Alysson72
- #2,609Aidyn71
- #2,609Ailey71
- #2,609Anabell71
Tied with 24 names at #2,584; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.