Meaning not yet researched.
Octavian: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 51 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,166 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,166 in 2021; #2,592 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Octavian in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,592 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #2,166.
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Octavian: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 51 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,166 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 66 (2021).
In 2025, 51 US boys were named Octavian, making it the 2,592nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 343 places from #2,249 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 64 boys named Octavian in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,166, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 66. For comparison, it was #3,567 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Octavian in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 6 babies. In all, 1,481 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 432 babies named Octavian.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 554 US boys were named Octavian; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 66. In 2025 that was about 1 in 33,492 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Octavian ranked highest in California in 2025, at #2,708 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Octavion and Octavien are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Octavion (195), Octavien (23).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Octavian in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #2,708 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 51 | #2,592 |
| 2024 | — | — | 64 | #2,249 |
| 2023 | — | — | 58 | #2,381 |
| 2022 | — | — | 61 | #2,343 |
| 2021 | — | — | 66 | #2,166 |
| 2020 | — | — | 50 | #2,576 |
| 2019 | — | — | 61 | #2,284 |
| 2018 | — | — | 47 | #2,659 |
| 2017 | — | — | 40 | #2,991 |
| 2016 | — | — | 56 | #2,360 |
| 2015 | — | — | 31 | #3,567 |
| 2014 | — | — | 33 | #3,354 |
| 2013 | — | — | 43 | #2,750 |
| 2012 | — | — | 29 | #3,687 |
| 2011 | — | — | 54 | #2,368 |
| 2010 | — | — | 38 | #3,059 |
| 2009 | — | — | 55 | #2,374 |
| 2008 | — | — | 44 | #2,776 |
| 2007 | — | — | 58 | #2,270 |
| 2006 | — | — | 33 | #3,287 |
| 2005 | — | — | 24 | #3,906 |
| 2004 | — | — | 29 | #3,345 |
| 2003 | — | — | 29 | #3,251 |
| 2002 | — | — | 27 | #3,319 |
| 2001 | — | — | 22 | #3,811 |
| 2000 | — | — | 31 | #2,905 |
| 1999 | — | — | 24 | #3,341 |
| 1998 | — | — | 16 | #4,352 |
| 1997 | — | — | 25 | #3,040 |
| 1996 | — | — | 17 | #3,970 |
| 1995 | — | — | 21 | #3,275 |
| 1994 | — | — | 10 | #5,767 |
| 1993 | — | — | 12 | #4,918 |
| 1992 | — | — | 16 | #3,867 |
| 1991 | — | — | 17 | #3,582 |
| 1990 | — | — | 15 | #3,909 |
| 1989 | — | — | 9 | #5,477 |
| 1988 | — | — | 10 | #4,686 |
| 1987 | — | — | 11 | #4,166 |
| 1986 | — | — | 15 | #3,233 |
| 1985 | — | — | 9 | #4,587 |
| 1984 | — | — | 9 | #4,444 |
| 1983 | — | — | 10 | #4,064 |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #7,068 |
| 1981 | — | — | 10 | #4,067 |
| 1980 | — | — | 11 | #3,778 |
| 1979 | — | — | 10 | #3,994 |
| 1978 | — | — | 12 | #3,344 |
| 1977 | — | — | 10 | #3,772 |
| 1976 | — | — | 9 | #3,920 |
| 1975 | — | — | 7 | #4,652 |
| 1974 | — | — | 6 | #5,068 |
| 1972 | — | — | 8 | #3,867 |
| 1971 | — | — | 7 | #4,255 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,580 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).