Octavious
Octavious was given to 17 boys in 2025, #5,544 among boys’ names; 1,674 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,600 Americans named Octavious and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 17 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Octavious by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Octavious?
#5,544 among boys’ names, 2025
Octavious fell from #3,658 in 2015 to #5,544 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 15.7 to 10.0 per million.
63 babies in 1992, the peak
Octavious peaked in 1992, when 63 boys were given it, #1,459 among boys’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #5,544 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 12 | #7,137 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 23 | #4,569 | 13.4 |
| 2022 | 24 | #4,398 | 13.7 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,160 | 21.7 |
| 2020 | 25 | #4,109 | 14.5 |
| 2019 | 24 | #4,301 | 13.4 |
| 2018 | 23 | #4,449 | 12.7 |
| 2017 | 34 | #3,358 | 18.4 |
| 2016 | 25 | #4,171 | 13.2 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #3,658 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,401 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 22 | #4,423 | 11.6 |
| 2012 | 29 | #3,685 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 25 | #4,072 | 13.2 |
| 2010 | 32 | #3,423 | 16.7 |
| 2009 | 35 | #3,255 | 17.6 |
| 2008 | 33 | #3,402 | 16.2 |
| 2007 | 40 | #2,957 | 19.3 |
| 2006 | 40 | #2,864 | 19.5 |
| 2005 | 31 | #3,294 | 15.5 |
| 2004 | 36 | #2,865 | 18.1 |
| 2003 | 26 | #3,493 | 13.2 |
| 2002 | 34 | #2,797 | 17.5 |
| 2001 | 42 | #2,368 | 21.6 |
| 2000 | 35 | #2,658 | 17.8 |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,048 | 24.5 |
| 1998 | 46 | #2,055 | 24.1 |
| 1997 | 56 | #1,744 | 29.7 |
| 1996 | 40 | #2,127 | 21.1 |
| 1995 | 42 | #2,008 | 22.1 |
| 1994 | 48 | #1,809 | 24.8 |
| 1993 | 40 | #2,033 | 20.4 |
| 1992 | 63 | #1,459 | 31.5 |
| 1991 | 51 | #1,638 | 25.2 |
| 1990 | 36 | #2,067 | 17.5 |
| 1989 | 39 | #1,905 | 19.5 |
| 1988 | 34 | #1,935 | 17.8 |
| 1987 | 31 | #2,006 | 16.6 |
| 1986 | 31 | #1,950 | 16.8 |
| 1985 | 24 | #2,272 | 13.0 |
| 1984 | 15 | #3,057 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 33 | #1,738 | 18.4 |
| 1982 | 22 | #2,319 | 12.1 |
| 1981 | 24 | #2,179 | 13.4 |
| 1980 | 18 | #2,697 | 10.1 |
| 1979 | 15 | #2,984 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 17 | #2,634 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 23 | #2,110 | 14.0 |
| 1976 | 22 | #2,153 | 14.0 |
| 1975 | 21 | #2,182 | 13.4 |
| 1974 | 16 | #2,526 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,383 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 15 | #2,507 | 9.3 |
| 1971 | 14 | #2,651 | 7.9 |
| 1970 | 11 | #3,015 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,587 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,384 | 2.3 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,780 | 4.7 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,407 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Octavious a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Octavious has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 60 years of records.
Girls and boys named Octavious: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Octavious, and how old are they?
1,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,674 Americans ever recorded as Octavious. The median Octavious alive today is 28 years old; half are between 17 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 1,289 people named Octavious (29 women and girls, 1,260 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,489 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 168 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 551 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 577 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 306 |
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).
Where are babies named Octavious born?
The states with the most babies named Octavious are Georgia, Florida and Tennessee, with 88% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 301 | not ranked | 5.9× |
| Florida | 100 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 54 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Mississippi | 23 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 19 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Alabama | 12 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Octavious is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Octavious is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1917 it was given 5.9 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 Octavious 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 5,665 babies since 1880, Octavious is the second most given (30% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 89 babies (19%), again the second 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 Octavious
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 Octavious and names like it
- Compare Octavious and OctaviusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sOctavious peaked in 1992.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Octavious since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Octavious.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Octavious alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with OMost given first.