Octavius
Octavius is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 76 births. Its best rank was 918th, in 1987.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 760.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1991126 births
- Best rank
- #918in 1987
- Since 1911
- 3,614people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,614 boys have been named Octavius in the United States since 1911, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1991, with 126 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1995, and the 1990s alone account for 23%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Octavius | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 17 | |
| 1920s | 24 | |
| 1930s | 5 | |
| 1940s | 6 | |
| 1950s | 11 | |
| 1960s | 78 | |
| 1970s | 490 | |
| 1980s | 684 | |
| 1990s | 815 | |
| 2000s | 520 | |
| 2010s | 535 | |
| 2020s | 429 |
In 1991, its biggest year
Octavius was the 951st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1991 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Andrew. See all of 1991.
Names that rose and fell with Octavius
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rahimpeak 2018
- Kypeak 1992
- Ravipeak 2024
- Kendrickpeak 2013
- Kareempeak 1980
- Kendricpeak 2013
- Jansonpeak 2016
- Alonpeak 2022
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.