Boy · Latin
Octavius
Say it: ok-TAY-vee-us
Meaning
Roman family name, from Latin octavus 'eighth'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Given to eighth children in Georgian and Victorian families.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 1990s
In the United States
- 3,282 babies given this name since 1911
- At its height in 1991, about 1 in 16,000 boys
- 84 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- Ancient Rome750 BC to AD 476
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
| Italian | Ottavio |
|---|---|
| Spanish | Octavio |
| Portuguese | Otávio |
| French | Octave |
| Romanian | Octavian |
Famous bearers
- Gaius Octavius, the future Emperor Augustus
- Octavio Paz, Mexican poet
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Where this comes from
- Roman literature and history (Livy, Cicero, Tacitus and others)
- Roman inscriptions and tombstones
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- Parish baptism registers
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.