Meaning not yet researched.
Octavius: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 72 in 2025. Its best rank was #918 in 1987.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #918 in 1987; #2,073 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Octavius in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,073 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1987, at #918.
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Octavius: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 72 boys in 2025. Peak: #918 in 1987 · most boys in one year: 126 (1991).
In 2025, 72 US boys were named Octavius, making it the 2,073rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 66 places from #2,007 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 77 boys named Octavius in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #918, reached in 1987. The most boys given the name in a single year was 126, in 1991. For comparison, it was #2,320 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Octavius in 75 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1911 with 6 babies. In all, 3,702 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 820 babies named Octavius.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 751 US boys were named Octavius; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 96. In 2025 that was about 1 in 23,723 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Octavius ranked highest in Pennsylvania in 2025, at #1,386 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Octavious, Octavis and Octavus are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Octavious (1,674), Octavis (289), Octavus (5).
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 Octavius 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,386 | — |
| California | 7 | #2,145 | — |
| Texas | 5 | #2,853 | #1,730 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 72 | #2,073 |
| 2024 | — | — | 77 | #2,007 |
| 2023 | — | — | 88 | #1,827 |
| 2022 | — | — | 84 | #1,886 |
| 2021 | — | — | 96 | #1,705 |
| 2020 | — | — | 85 | #1,786 |
| 2019 | — | — | 68 | #2,124 |
| 2018 | — | — | 73 | #2,010 |
| 2017 | — | — | 57 | #2,306 |
| 2016 | — | — | 51 | #2,507 |
| 2015 | — | — | 57 | #2,320 |
| 2014 | — | — | 43 | #2,792 |
| 2013 | — | — | 51 | #2,451 |
| 2012 | — | — | 38 | #3,042 |
| 2011 | — | — | 40 | #2,941 |
| 2010 | — | — | 57 | #2,281 |
| 2009 | — | — | 57 | #2,313 |
| 2008 | — | — | 69 | #2,037 |
| 2007 | — | — | 54 | #2,404 |
| 2006 | — | — | 44 | #2,688 |
| 2005 | — | — | 46 | #2,484 |
| 2004 | — | — | 34 | #2,999 |
| 2003 | — | — | 45 | #2,384 |
| 2002 | — | — | 50 | #2,144 |
| 2001 | — | — | 52 | #2,041 |
| 2000 | — | — | 69 | #1,678 |
| 1999 | — | — | 64 | #1,666 |
| 1998 | — | — | 59 | #1,737 |
| 1997 | — | — | 66 | #1,564 |
| 1996 | — | — | 65 | #1,547 |
| 1995 | — | — | 87 | #1,254 |
| 1994 | — | — | 85 | #1,272 |
| 1993 | — | — | 102 | #1,113 |
| 1992 | — | — | 66 | #1,411 |
| 1991 | — | — | 126 | #951 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,551 | 95 | #1,099 |
| 1989 | — | — | 84 | #1,159 |
| 1988 | — | — | 93 | #1,020 |
| 1987 | — | — | 106 | #918 |
| 1986 | — | — | 70 | #1,133 |
| 1985 | — | — | 57 | #1,275 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,631 | 49 | #1,359 |
| 1983 | — | — | 57 | #1,215 |
| 1982 | — | — | 48 | #1,378 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,615 | 66 | #1,131 |
| 1980 | — | — | 54 | #1,268 |
| 1979 | — | — | 65 | #1,112 |
| 1978 | — | — | 70 | #1,047 |
| 1977 | — | — | 49 | #1,284 |
| 1976 | — | — | 61 | #1,081 |
| 1975 | — | — | 47 | #1,249 |
| 1974 | — | — | 50 | #1,178 |
| 1973 | — | — | 42 | #1,286 |
| 1972 | — | — | 45 | #1,242 |
| 1971 | — | — | 32 | #1,548 |
| 1970 | — | — | 29 | #1,602 |
| 1969 | — | — | 12 | #2,648 |
| 1968 | — | — | 12 | #2,542 |
| 1967 | — | — | 8 | #3,166 |
| 1966 | — | — | 12 | #2,422 |
| 1964 | — | — | 10 | #2,792 |
| 1963 | — | — | 8 | #3,251 |
| 1962 | — | — | 7 | #3,537 |
| 1960 | — | — | 9 | #3,021 |
| 1959 | — | — | 5 | #4,402 |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,683 |
| 1948 | — | — | 6 | #3,572 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #4,059 |
| 1928 | — | — | 7 | #3,609 |
| 1926 | — | — | 6 | #4,060 |
| 1923 | — | — | 6 | #4,116 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,783 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,409 |
| 1916 | — | — | 6 | #3,774 |
| 1911 | — | — | 6 | #1,683 |
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).