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Ovide

Boys' name

Form of Ovid

Ovide has been given to 140 babies in the U.S. since 1910. 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 1921, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Ovide, 1943

1 in 403,000

Ovide over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ovide: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Ovid

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ovide means

Ovide is a form of Ovid.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ovide is used in French.

Another recorded pronunciation is /o.vid/ for Ovide.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Ovide → Ovid. The family’s proposed meaning is “a sheep”, recorded in the naming reference for Ovid.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ovid.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 140 boys were recorded with the name Ovide between 1910 and 1943. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1921; its best national rank was #1,540 in 1910.

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.

How common is Ovide?

Ovide had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1943, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1943
1 in 403,000
7 of 2,822,499 births
Among boys only
1 in 204,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1943
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
279,488 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ovide 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 1943 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 279,488 children born in 1943 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ovide. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ovides were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ovide was born before 1923 — so the typical Ovide is around 102 today.

Median birth year
1923
About 102 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
37.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
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1920s — 37.9% of all recorded uses (53).

Is Ovide 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1921 (11)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,540
1910

Spellings of Ovide

Ovide is not the most common spelling — Obie is, with 18.4% against Ovide's 0.62%.

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 Ovide is used

Across 1910–2025, Ovide was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 628,941 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in —

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. Ovide has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ovide around the world

Where Ovide 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
    1900–1963
    #1,779
    in 1963

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

Ovide by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,540
1910
Peak year
1921
11 that year
First recorded
1910
Last recorded
1943
All-time count
140
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ovide

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

CaideZaideOvilaKaideOvieOviIremideOvidioAdemidePrideOlamideOvidDavideTideClideOlumideOvinAyomideReideEuclideWaideAlcideAristideOlajide

Sibling names for Ovide

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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