Octave
Octave was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 450 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Octave by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Octave?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,947, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1918, the peak
Octave peaked in 1918, when 18 boys were given it, #1,881 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #11,947 | 3.5 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,834 | 2.8 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,363 | 2.8 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,911 | 2.9 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,438 | 2.3 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,400 | 2.3 |
| 1952 | 10 | #2,628 | 5.1 |
| 1949 | 5 | #4,069 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,278 | 3.8 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,421 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | 5 | #3,769 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,907 | 3.5 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,058 | 5.7 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,366 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,379 | 5.4 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,084 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,414 | 5.6 |
| 1936 | 8 | #2,788 | 7.7 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,168 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 14 | #1,996 | 13.6 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,536 | 6.1 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,026 | 7.7 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,022 | 7.7 |
| 1930 | 6 | #3,885 | 5.5 |
| 1929 | 9 | #2,906 | 8.4 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,282 | 7.2 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,648 | 9.8 |
| 1926 | 10 | #2,849 | 9.0 |
| 1925 | 11 | #2,699 | 9.9 |
| 1924 | 11 | #2,778 | 9.7 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,379 | 7.3 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,453 | 7.4 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,148 | 8.2 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,559 | 11.3 |
| 1919 | 18 | #1,859 | 18.4 |
| 1918 | 18 | #1,881 | 17.8 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,406 | 5.4 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,119 | 15.7 |
| 1915 | 16 | #1,861 | 18.9 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,836 | 19.9 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,705 | 23.3 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,235 | 42.7 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,095 | 50.3 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,134 | 46.5 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,252 | 40.8 |
| 1896 | 7 | #951 | 58.5 |
| 1894 | 9 | #769 | 77.7 |
| 1892 | 12 | #628 | 98.3 |
| 1889 | 10 | #658 | 90.4 |
| 1885 | 10 | #628 | 92.8 |
| 1884 | 9 | #691 | 78.6 |
| 1882 | 9 | #683 | 79.2 |
| 1880 | 9 | #671 | 81.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Octave a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Octave has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Octave: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Octave, and how old are they?
An estimated 60 Americans named Octave and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 249 people named Octave (6 women and girls, 243 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 78 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Octave born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 149 | not ranked | 21.0× |
Where Octave is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Octave is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1910 it was given 21.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Octave with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 11,904 babies since 1880, Octave is the second most given (3.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 154 babies recorded by SSA was a Octave (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Octave
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Octave and names like it
- Compare Octave and OctavioBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sOctave peaked in 1918.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Octave since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Octave.
- Names starting with OMost given first.