girls:
15 births since 1981
#5701 (0th percentile)
boys:
3.5k births since 1911
#2096 (54th percentile)
overall:
3.6k births since 1911
#4590 (41st percentile)
The name Octavius is the #4,590 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,553 recorded births since 1911. This represents the 40.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 40.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,096 (54.3% percentile) for all time with 3,538 births since 1911. For girls, it ranks #5,701 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 15 births since 1981.
Octavius first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1911 (1911 for boys and 1981 for girls). Birth data for Octavius is available in 73 out of the 113 years between 1911 and 2023 (73 years for boys and 3 years for girls). 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.
The name Octavius has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Octavius reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 15.7% percentile (ranked #641) with 59 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 59 births per million (ranked 15.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Octavius ranks #828 for boys (9.1% percentile) with 48 births per million, which is 80.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Octavius reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #777) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1981, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Octavius".
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Our model is 87.2% confident that Octavius is pronounced as ahk-TAY-vee-uhs, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ahk-TAY-vyuhs, at 12.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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