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Octavia

Pronounced /əkˈteɪ.vi.ə/

Rank in 2024
#294
Born in 2024
1,066
Peak year
2021 · #248
Origin
Latin

1880 to 2024

Rising
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 1,066 girls were named Octavia, about 1 in every 1,513.
  • It peaked in 2021 with 1,238 babies, ranked #248.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 22,981 girls have been named Octavia since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Octavia per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. <0.1
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. 0.2
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. 0.4
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 1,971 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Silent: 872 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,249 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen X: 2,269 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Millennials: 5,175 babies, 0.18 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,430 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 8,268 babies, 0.41 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Latin Octāvia, feminine form of the gens name Octāvius, from octavus (“the eighth”).

  • A female given name from Latin, in quiet use since the Middle Ages.
Origin
Latin
Say it
/əkˈteɪ.vi.ə/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Octavia, CC BY-SA 4.0.