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
Octavia through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #305 among girls, with 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, the most in any year.
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.