Meaning not yet researched.
October: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 40 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,606 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,606 in 2008; #3,758 in 2025. About 82% of babies named October in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,758 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #2,606.
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October: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 40 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,606 in 2008 · most girls in one year: 72 (2008).
In 2025, 40 US girls were named October, making it the 3,758th most common girls’ name of the year, down 128 places from #3,630 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 43 girls named October in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,606, reached in 2008. That year also had the most girls given the name: 72. For comparison, it was #3,746 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 9 US boys were named October, making it the 8,725th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,582 places from #7,143 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 12 boys named October in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #4,845, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 21. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list October in 43 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 5 babies. In all, 1,342 US babies have been given the name, 93% of them girls and 7.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 557 babies named October.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 531 US girls were named October; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 66. In 2025 that was about 1 in 40,182 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Oktober are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English and Latin. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Oktober (91).
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 October 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 | 40 | #3,758 | 9 | #8,725 |
| 2024 | 43 | #3,630 | 12 | #7,143 |
| 2023 | 52 | #3,173 | 21 | #4,845 |
| 2022 | 66 | #2,657 | 11 | #7,602 |
| 2021 | 52 | #3,147 | 8 | #9,452 |
| 2020 | 56 | #2,924 | 6 | #11,611 |
| 2019 | 51 | #3,157 | 11 | #7,492 |
| 2018 | 63 | #2,732 | 6 | #11,764 |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,128 | 6 | #11,805 |
| 2016 | 56 | #3,003 | 6 | #11,747 |
| 2015 | 41 | #3,746 | — | — |
| 2014 | 46 | #3,472 | — | — |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,559 | — | — |
| 2012 | 57 | #2,997 | — | — |
| 2011 | 54 | #3,124 | — | — |
| 2010 | 64 | #2,778 | — | — |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,924 | — | — |
| 2008 | 72 | #2,606 | — | — |
| 2007 | 57 | #3,084 | — | — |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,749 | — | — |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,726 | — | — |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,267 | — | — |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,911 | — | — |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,912 | — | — |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,511 | — | — |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,316 | — | — |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,045 | — | — |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,183 | — | — |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,098 | — | — |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,354 | — | — |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,723 | — | — |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,892 | — | — |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,891 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,851 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,751 | — | — |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,671 | — | — |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,153 | — | — |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,778 | — | — |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,278 | — | — |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,452 | — | — |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,096 | — | — |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,761 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,306 | — | — |
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).