boys:
1.4k births since 1970
#3264 (29th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1970
#6379 (18th percentile)
The name Octavian is the #6,379 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,364 recorded births since 1970. This represents the 17.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 17.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,264 (28.8% percentile) for all time with 1,364 births since 1970.
Octavian first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1970 (first recorded for boys in 1970). Birth data for Octavian is available in 53 out of the 54 years between 1970 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Octavian reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 6.6% percentile (ranked #869) with 35 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 35 births per million (ranked 6.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Octavian ranks #859 for boys (5.7% percentile) with 31 births per million, which is 88.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Octavian".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Octavian is pronounced as ahk-TAY-vee-uhn, which has 4 syllables.
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