Octavie

Girls' name

Form of Octavia

Octavie has been given to 176 babies in the U.S. since 1883. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1920, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Octavie, 1926

1 in 287,000

Octavie over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Octavie: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Octavia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Octavie means

Octavie is a form of Octavia.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Octavie is used in French.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ɔk.ta.vi/ for Octavie.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Octavie is a form of Octavia. Octavia has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Octavia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 176 girls were recorded with the name Octavie between 1883 and 1926. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1920; its best national rank was #835 in 1887.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Octavie?

Octavie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1926, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1926: 1 in 287,000; 8 of 2,295,839 births
Among girls only: 1 in 148,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1926: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 198,920 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Octavie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1926 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 198,920 children born in 1926 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Octavie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Octavies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Octavie was born before 1904 — so the typical Octavie is around 121 today.

Median birth year: 1904; About 121 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 23.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 59.1%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 23.9% of all recorded uses (42).

Is Octavie 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1920 (12)
Years since peak: 105; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 32.2% average annual change
Best rank ever: #835; 1887

Spellings of Octavie

Octavie is not the most common spelling — Octavia is, with 99.3% against Octavie's 0.73%.

Octavia99.3%23,978
Octavie0.73%176

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.

Octavie around the world

Where Octavie 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.

France
1900–2025
#979
in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Octavie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #835; 1887
Peak year: 1920; 12 that year
First recorded: 1883
Last recorded: 1926
All-time count: 176
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Octavie

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

Octayvia Jenavie October Silvie Octivia Nayvie Harvie Jenevie Genavie Levie Eevie Elovie Shelvie Vivie Evvie Jennavie Octaviah Octava Velvie Novie Octa Clevie Maevie Belvie

Sibling names for Octavie

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

For a sister

Norine Vina Mozelle Marcelle Syble Adella Mittie Melvina

For a brother

Junius Dock Rupert Hilton Casimir Edd Noble Mckinley

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