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Octavian

#2,592 in 2025Boys' name

From Latin Octavianus; literal meaning unconfirmed

Octavian has been given to 1,481 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #2,592 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 66 recorded.

Babies named Octavian, 2025

1 in 65,000

Octavian over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Octavian: meaning, origin, and history

From Latin Octavianus; literal meaning unconfirmed

Latin

What Octavian means

Octavian is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Octavian is used in English and Romanian. Its origins include Latin.

Octavian comes through Latin Octavianus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Octavian is pronounced /ɒkˈteɪvi.ən/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,481 boys were recorded with the name Octavian between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 66 in 2021; its best national rank was #2,165 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,575 in 2020 to #2,592 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,566 in 2015 to #2,592 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Octavian?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 65,000
51 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 33,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,592
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
45,058 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Octavian sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 45,058 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Octavian. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Octavians were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Octavian was born before 2011 — so the typical Octavian is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,481
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2010s — 29.2% of all recorded uses (432).

Is Octavian rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−343
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−17
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+974
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.65×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
77.3%
Peak was 2021 (66)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,165
2021

Spellings of Octavian

Octavian is not the most common spelling — Octavio is, with 59.0% against Octavian's 7.6%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Octavian is used

Across 2016–2025, Octavian was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 63,594 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 100,000).

12 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Colorado1 in 50,000
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 50,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 50,000
  5. 5Arizona1 in 100,000
  6. 6New York1 in 100,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 100,000
  8. 8Washington1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Octavian around the world

Where Octavian ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2008–2025
    #1,798
    in 2025
  • France
    2002–2025
    #3,611
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2008–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Octavian by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,592
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 17
Best rank ever
#2,165
2021
Peak year
2021
66 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,481
Count in 2025
51

Names similar to Octavian

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Octavian

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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