Octavian
Octavian was given to 51 boys in 2025, #2,592 among boys’ names; 1,481 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,450 Americans named Octavian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Octavian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Octavian mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Octavian is “a male given name from Latin, notably borne by Augustus (Caesar) between 44 and 27 BCE”
From Latin Octavianus, derivative of Octāvius.
/ɒkˈteɪvi.ən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Octavian?
#2,592 among boys’ names, 2025
Octavian rose from #3,566 in 2015 to #2,592 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 16.2 to 29.9 per million.
66 babies in 2021, the peak
Octavian peaked in 2021, when 66 boys were given it, #2,165 among boys’ names. The 51 births of 2025 are 77% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51 | #2,592 | 29.9 |
| 2024 | 64 | #2,249 | 37.1 |
| 2023 | 58 | #2,380 | 33.9 |
| 2022 | 61 | #2,342 | 34.9 |
| 2021 | 66 | #2,165 | 37.7 |
| 2020 | 50 | #2,575 | 29.0 |
| 2019 | 61 | #2,283 | 34.0 |
| 2018 | 47 | #2,658 | 25.9 |
| 2017 | 40 | #2,990 | 21.6 |
| 2016 | 56 | #2,360 | 29.5 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #3,566 | 16.2 |
| 2014 | 33 | #3,352 | 17.2 |
| 2013 | 43 | #2,748 | 22.7 |
| 2012 | 29 | #3,684 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 54 | #2,367 | 28.4 |
| 2010 | 38 | #3,058 | 19.8 |
| 2009 | 55 | #2,373 | 27.7 |
| 2008 | 44 | #2,775 | 21.6 |
| 2007 | 58 | #2,270 | 27.9 |
| 2006 | 33 | #3,285 | 16.1 |
| 2005 | 24 | #3,902 | 12.0 |
| 2004 | 29 | #3,341 | 14.6 |
| 2003 | 29 | #3,246 | 14.7 |
| 2002 | 27 | #3,315 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 22 | #3,806 | 11.3 |
| 2000 | 31 | #2,899 | 15.8 |
| 1999 | 24 | #3,337 | 12.5 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,348 | 8.4 |
| 1997 | 25 | #3,035 | 13.3 |
| 1996 | 17 | #3,964 | 9.0 |
| 1995 | 21 | #3,270 | 11.0 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,761 | 5.2 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,912 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 16 | #3,860 | 8.0 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,575 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 15 | #3,903 | 7.3 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,470 | 4.5 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,681 | 5.2 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,159 | 5.9 |
| 1986 | 15 | #3,230 | 8.1 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,582 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,441 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 10 | #4,062 | 5.6 |
| 1982 | 5 | #7,066 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 10 | #4,065 | 5.6 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,777 | 6.2 |
| 1979 | 10 | #3,992 | 5.8 |
| 1978 | 12 | #3,343 | 7.3 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,770 | 6.1 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,918 | 5.7 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,650 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 6 | #5,066 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,865 | 4.9 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,253 | 4.0 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,578 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Octavian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Octavian has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Octavian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Octavian, and how old are they?
1,450 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,481 Americans ever recorded as Octavian. The median Octavian alive today is 15 years old; half are between 7 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 1,348 people named Octavian (31 women and girls, 1,317 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,123 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 78 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 187 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 530 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 656 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,676 babies since 1880, Octavian is the most given (88% of them). In 2025 it was given to 51 of their 57 babies (89%), again the most given.
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 Octavian
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 Octavian and names like it
- Compare Octavian and OctavionBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sOctavian peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Octavian since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Octavian: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Octavian.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Octavian alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with OMost given first.