girls:
21.9k births since 1880
#971 (83rd percentile)
boys:
139 births since 1920
#4447 (3rd percentile)
overall:
22k births since 1880
#1713 (78th percentile)
The name Octavia is the #1,713 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 22,039 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 77.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 77.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #971 (83.0% percentile) for all time with 21,900 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,447 (3.0% percentile) for all time with 139 births since 1920.
Octavia has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1920 for boys).
The name Octavia has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.4% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Octavia reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 75.2% percentile (ranked #233) with 690 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 690 births per million (ranked 75.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Octavia ranks #265 for girls (72.1% percentile) with 642 births per million, which is 93.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Octavia reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #742) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 8 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Octavia".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Octavia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 86.4% confident that Octavia is pronounced as ahk-TAY-vee-uh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ahk-TAH-vee-uh, at 13.6% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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