Octavius
Octavius was given to 72 boys in 2025, #2,073 among boys’ names; 3,702 Americans have been recorded with it since 1911 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,500 Americans named Octavius and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 13 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Octavius by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Octavius mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Octavius is “a male given name from Latin, in occasional use.”
From Latin Octāvius, name of a Roman gens.
/ɒkˈteɪvɪəs/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Octavius?
#2,073 among boys’ names, 2025
Octavius rose from #2,319 in 2015 to #2,073 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 29.7 to 42.2 per million.
126 babies in 1991, the peak
Octavius peaked in 1991, when 126 boys were given it, #946 among boys’ names. The 72 births of 2025 are 57% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72 | #2,073 | 42.2 |
| 2024 | 77 | #2,007 | 44.7 |
| 2023 | 88 | #1,827 | 51.4 |
| 2022 | 84 | #1,885 | 48.1 |
| 2021 | 96 | #1,705 | 54.9 |
| 2020 | 85 | #1,786 | 49.2 |
| 2019 | 68 | #2,123 | 37.9 |
| 2018 | 73 | #2,009 | 40.2 |
| 2017 | 57 | #2,305 | 30.8 |
| 2016 | 51 | #2,507 | 26.9 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 57 | #2,319 | 29.7 |
| 2014 | 43 | #2,790 | 22.4 |
| 2013 | 51 | #2,450 | 27.0 |
| 2012 | 38 | #3,040 | 20.0 |
| 2011 | 40 | #2,940 | 21.1 |
| 2010 | 57 | #2,280 | 29.7 |
| 2009 | 57 | #2,312 | 28.7 |
| 2008 | 69 | #2,036 | 33.8 |
| 2007 | 54 | #2,404 | 26.0 |
| 2006 | 44 | #2,687 | 21.4 |
| 2005 | 46 | #2,480 | 23.0 |
| 2004 | 34 | #2,995 | 17.1 |
| 2003 | 45 | #2,380 | 22.8 |
| 2002 | 50 | #2,140 | 25.8 |
| 2001 | 52 | #2,037 | 26.8 |
| 2000 | 69 | #1,674 | 35.1 |
| 1999 | 64 | #1,663 | 33.3 |
| 1998 | 59 | #1,734 | 30.9 |
| 1997 | 66 | #1,561 | 35.0 |
| 1996 | 65 | #1,544 | 34.3 |
| 1995 | 87 | #1,249 | 45.7 |
| 1994 | 85 | #1,268 | 44.0 |
| 1993 | 102 | #1,109 | 52.0 |
| 1992 | 66 | #1,406 | 33.0 |
| 1991 | 126 | #946 | 62.4 |
| 1990 | 95 | #1,095 | 46.3 |
| 1989 | 84 | #1,155 | 42.0 |
| 1988 | 93 | #1,018 | 48.6 |
| 1987 | 106 | #917 | 56.8 |
| 1986 | 70 | #1,132 | 38.0 |
| 1985 | 57 | #1,274 | 30.8 |
| 1984 | 49 | #1,358 | 27.1 |
| 1983 | 57 | #1,215 | 31.8 |
| 1982 | 48 | #1,377 | 26.5 |
| 1981 | 66 | #1,131 | 36.8 |
| 1980 | 54 | #1,268 | 30.3 |
| 1979 | 65 | #1,112 | 37.8 |
| 1978 | 70 | #1,047 | 42.6 |
| 1977 | 49 | #1,284 | 29.8 |
| 1976 | 61 | #1,081 | 38.9 |
| 1975 | 47 | #1,249 | 30.1 |
| 1974 | 50 | #1,178 | 31.8 |
| 1973 | 42 | #1,286 | 26.9 |
| 1972 | 45 | #1,242 | 27.8 |
| 1971 | 32 | #1,547 | 18.1 |
| 1970 | 29 | #1,601 | 15.6 |
| 1969 | 12 | #2,647 | 6.7 |
| 1968 | 12 | #2,541 | 6.9 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,165 | 4.6 |
| 1966 | 12 | #2,421 | 6.7 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,791 | 5.0 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,250 | 3.9 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,536 | 3.4 |
| 1960 | 9 | #3,020 | 4.2 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,401 | 2.3 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,682 | 3.0 |
| 1948 | 6 | #3,570 | 3.4 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,057 | 4.8 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,607 | 6.3 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,058 | 5.4 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,113 | 5.5 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,781 | 4.7 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,408 | 5.4 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,773 | 6.7 |
| 1911 | 6 | #1,682 | 26.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Octavius a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Octavius has been given almost only to boys: 15 girls in 75 years of records.
Girls and boys named Octavius: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Octavius, and how old are they?
3,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 3,702 Americans ever recorded as Octavius. The median Octavius alive today is 30 years old; half are between 13 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 2,161 people named Octavius (44 women and girls, 2,117 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,069 born in the U.S. The Census count is 30% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 37 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 530 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,210 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 829 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 896 |
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 Octavius born?
The states with the most babies named Octavius are California, Texas and Pennsylvania, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,145 | 0.1× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,853 | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,386 | 0.1× |
Where Octavius is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Octavius is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1911 it was given 4.2 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 Octavius 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, Octavius is the most given (65% of them). In 2025 it was given to 72 of their 89 babies (81%), 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 Octavius
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 Octavius and names like it
- Compare Octavius and OctaviousBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sOctavius peaked in 1991.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Octavius since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Octavius: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Octavius.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Octavius alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with OMost given first.