Octavis
Octavis was last recorded in 2015, when 6 babies were given it; 289 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Octavis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Octavis?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,703, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 1980, the peak
Octavis peaked in 1980, when 16 boys were given it, #2,920 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #11,703 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 7 | #10,346 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 5 | #12,808 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 7 | #9,340 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 12 | #5,966 | 6.2 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,817 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,974 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,458 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,830 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 13 | #4,873 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 11 | #5,430 | 5.8 |
| 1995 | 12 | #5,025 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,717 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 9 | #6,084 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 13 | #4,502 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 12 | #4,678 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,263 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,682 | 5.2 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,907 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 12 | #3,809 | 6.5 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,282 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,442 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,789 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,482 | 5.0 |
| 1981 | 13 | #3,358 | 7.3 |
| 1980 | 16 | #2,920 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,850 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,777 | 6.1 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,561 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,776 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,271 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 6 | #5,068 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,649 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Octavis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Octavis has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Octavis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Octavis, and how old are they?
An estimated 275 Americans named Octavis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 29 and 44. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 250 people named Octavis (35 women and girls, 215 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 279 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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.
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 3 names spelled alike, given to 5,665 babies since 1880, Octavis is the third most given (5.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 89 babies recorded by SSA was a Octavis (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 Octavis
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 Octavis and names like it
- Compare Octavis and OctaviusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sOctavis peaked in 1980.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Octavis.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Octavis alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with OMost given first.