Octavious is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Octavius, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Octavious: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,464 in 1992.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,464 in 1992; #5,546 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Octavious in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,546 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1992, at #1,464.
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Octavious: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,464 in 1992 · most boys in one year: 63 (1992).
In 2025, 17 US boys were named Octavious, making it the 5,546th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,596 places from #7,142 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 12 boys named Octavious in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,464, reached in 1992. That year also had the most boys given the name: 63. For comparison, it was #3,659 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Octavious in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 5 babies. In all, 1,674 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 469 babies named Octavious.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 245 US boys were named Octavious; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 38. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,475 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Octavius (3,702 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
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 Octavious in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 17 | #5,546 |
| 2024 | — | — | 12 | #7,142 |
| 2023 | — | — | 23 | #4,573 |
| 2022 | — | — | 24 | #4,402 |
| 2021 | — | — | 38 | #3,161 |
| 2020 | — | — | 25 | #4,113 |
| 2019 | — | — | 24 | #4,305 |
| 2018 | — | — | 23 | #4,453 |
| 2017 | — | — | 34 | #3,360 |
| 2016 | — | — | 25 | #4,172 |
| 2015 | — | — | 30 | #3,659 |
| 2014 | — | — | 11 | #7,406 |
| 2013 | — | — | 22 | #4,425 |
| 2012 | — | — | 29 | #3,688 |
| 2011 | — | — | 25 | #4,074 |
| 2010 | — | — | 32 | #3,424 |
| 2009 | — | — | 35 | #3,257 |
| 2008 | — | — | 33 | #3,404 |
| 2007 | — | — | 40 | #2,959 |
| 2006 | — | — | 40 | #2,865 |
| 2005 | — | — | 31 | #3,298 |
| 2004 | — | — | 36 | #2,869 |
| 2003 | — | — | 26 | #3,498 |
| 2002 | — | — | 34 | #2,801 |
| 2001 | — | — | 42 | #2,372 |
| 2000 | — | — | 35 | #2,663 |
| 1999 | — | — | 47 | #2,051 |
| 1998 | — | — | 46 | #2,058 |
| 1997 | — | — | 56 | #1,747 |
| 1996 | — | — | 40 | #2,132 |
| 1995 | — | — | 42 | #2,013 |
| 1994 | — | — | 48 | #1,814 |
| 1993 | — | — | 40 | #2,038 |
| 1992 | — | — | 63 | #1,464 |
| 1991 | — | — | 51 | #1,644 |
| 1990 | — | — | 36 | #2,072 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,869 | 39 | #1,910 |
| 1988 | — | — | 34 | #1,940 |
| 1987 | — | — | 31 | #2,010 |
| 1986 | — | — | 31 | #1,952 |
| 1985 | — | — | 24 | #2,273 |
| 1984 | — | — | 15 | #3,059 |
| 1983 | — | — | 33 | #1,739 |
| 1982 | — | — | 22 | #2,320 |
| 1981 | — | — | 24 | #2,180 |
| 1980 | — | — | 18 | #2,698 |
| 1979 | — | — | 15 | #2,985 |
| 1978 | — | — | 17 | #2,635 |
| 1977 | — | — | 23 | #2,110 |
| 1976 | — | — | 22 | #2,154 |
| 1975 | — | — | 21 | #2,183 |
| 1974 | — | — | 16 | #2,528 |
| 1973 | — | — | 7 | #4,385 |
| 1972 | — | — | 15 | #2,507 |
| 1971 | — | — | 14 | #2,652 |
| 1970 | — | — | 11 | #3,017 |
| 1968 | — | — | 7 | #3,588 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,385 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,782 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,408 |
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).