October — #3589 US unisex name

What the Data Says About October

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,204 babies named October between 1969 and 2024, spanning 56 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, October currently holds the #3589 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 72 babies received it in a single year. October is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 87 additional births since 2016.

Decade-level aggregation shows that October performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 527 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, October shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 71 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list October in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for October in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,204 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.