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 | |
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| 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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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.
Where Octavius is popular in 1976
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Carolina#324 · 1 in 2,490
- Georgia#355 · 1 in 3,238
- Tennessee#434 · 1 in 5,955
- Illinois#771 · 1 in 13,069
Best ever in a state: #222 in Georgia, 1987.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | #324 | 8 | 1 in 2,490 |
| Georgia | #355 | 11 | 1 in 3,238 |
| Tennessee | #434 | 5 | 1 in 5,955 |
| Illinois | #771 | 6 | 1 in 13,069 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 1976
Top boys' names in 1976
More about 1976
boys
1,569,007 boys got a published name in 1976; 1 in 25,721 of them was named Octavius, which outranked 83.6% of the 6,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 25.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,056Mary62
- #1,056Samson62
- #1,056Tierre62
- #1,067Octavius61
- #1,067Amit61
- #1,067Benton61
- #1,067Demetric61
- #1,084Andrae60
- #1,084Cristobal60
- #1,084Jarad60
Tied with 16 names at #1,067; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.