Octavia

Where Octavia comes from

From Latin Octāvia, feminine form of the gens name Octāvius, from octavus (“the eighth”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Octavia
  • Latin
  • 4 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #305 among girls — 27 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1947
    Octavia E. Butler born
    American science fiction writer
  3. 1970
    Octavia Spencer born
    American actress
  4. 2022
    Peak, #247
    1,238 babies named Octavia — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin, in quiet use since the Middle Ages.
Namesakes
  • Octavia Spencer · American actress, born 1970
  • Octavia E. Butler · American science fiction writer, 1947–2006
  • Octavia Hill · English social reformer, 1838–1912
  • Octavia Rogers Albert · African-American author of Life history, 1853–1889
  • Octavia Nasr · Lebanese-American writer, born 1966

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.