Ovid
Ovid was last recorded in 1989, when 5 babies were given it; 741 Americans have been recorded with it between 1886 and 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ovid by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ovid mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ovid is “a male given name from Latin of mainly historic use.”
From Latin Ovidius, name of a Roman gens.
/ˈɑvɪd/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ovid?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,879, in 1989; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
34 babies in 1915, the peak
Ovid peaked in 1915, when 34 boys were given it, #1,118 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 5 | #8,879 | 2.5 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,663 | 3.2 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,450 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,245 | 2.7 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,582 | 2.9 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,291 | 2.7 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,463 | 2.5 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,465 | 2.5 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,920 | 2.9 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,578 | 3.3 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 6 | #3,950 | 2.8 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,866 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,829 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 10 | #2,708 | 4.9 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,220 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,697 | 3.0 |
| 1952 | 8 | #3,037 | 4.1 |
| 1951 | 9 | #2,802 | 4.8 |
| 1950 | 5 | #4,061 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,605 | 3.4 |
| 1948 | 5 | #4,052 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 9 | #2,816 | 4.9 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,846 | 4.9 |
| 1945 | 8 | #2,706 | 5.9 |
| 1944 | 10 | #2,427 | 7.3 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,157 | 4.9 |
| 1942 | 9 | #2,663 | 6.5 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,298 | 9.0 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,281 | 9.5 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,405 | 9.0 |
| 1938 | 14 | #1,956 | 12.6 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,066 | 12.2 |
| 1936 | 8 | #2,796 | 7.7 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,666 | 8.6 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,225 | 11.6 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,499 | 10.1 |
| 1932 | 16 | #1,901 | 15.3 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,180 | 12.5 |
| 1930 | 18 | #1,800 | 16.4 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,179 | 7.4 |
| 1928 | 18 | #1,883 | 16.3 |
| 1927 | 26 | #1,504 | 23.1 |
| 1926 | 22 | #1,648 | 19.8 |
| 1925 | 22 | #1,665 | 19.7 |
| 1924 | 20 | #1,824 | 17.7 |
| 1923 | 14 | #2,302 | 12.8 |
| 1922 | 16 | #2,120 | 14.7 |
| 1921 | 23 | #1,631 | 20.9 |
| 1920 | 26 | #1,491 | 24.4 |
| 1919 | 28 | #1,375 | 28.6 |
| 1918 | 24 | #1,526 | 23.7 |
| 1917 | 25 | #1,426 | 27.0 |
| 1916 | 27 | #1,326 | 30.3 |
| 1915 | 34 | #1,118 | 40.1 |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,751 | 21.4 |
| 1913 | 12 | #1,651 | 23.4 |
| 1912 | 14 | #1,329 | 32.6 |
| 1911 | 5 | #1,935 | 22.1 |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,392 | 36.0 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,241 | 42.7 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,333 | 38.9 |
| 1907 | 9 | #982 | 61.3 |
| 1894 | 8 | #840 | 69.1 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,071 | 45.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ovid a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ovid has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ovid: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ovid, and how old are they?
An estimated 134 Americans named Ovid and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (18% of everyone recorded); the median is 72 years old and half are between 63 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 315 people named Ovid (4 women and girls, 311 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 181 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times 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.
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 801 babies since 1880, Ovid is the most given (93% of them).
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 Ovid
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 Ovid and names like it
- Compare Ovid and OvedBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sOvid peaked in 1915.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Ovid: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1915The year the most babies were named Ovid.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Ovid alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with OMost given first.