Octavio

Where Octavio comes from

Octavio 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. 1908
    First appearance
    #1,217 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1914
    Octavio Paz born
    Mexican writer, poet an diplomat
  3. 1923
    Octavio Lepage born
    President of Venezuela (acting) in 1993
  4. 2003
    Peak, #531
    437 babies named Octavio — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2010
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #928.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Octavio Paz · Mexican writer, poet an diplomat, 1914–1998
  • Octavio Lepage · President of Venezuela (acting) in 1993, 1923–2017
  • Octavio Díaz · Argentine footballer, 1900–1973
  • Octavio Beras Rojas · Catholic cardinal, 1906–1990
  • Octavio Ocampo · Mexican artist, born 1943

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.