Octavia Girl
How popular is Octavia?
#308 girl name in 2025
982 baby girls were named Octavia in the US in 2025, making it the 308th most popular girl name.
Octavia popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #308 for girls (▼ 14 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 982 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+461% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,354 in 2015, #333 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2021 (1,238 girls) |
| Highest rank | #247 in 2022 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.7% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Octavia counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Octavia family of names ranked #331 for girls in 2025 (#308 the year before), with 987 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Octavia | 982 | 99% |
| Octayvia | 5 | 1% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Octavia is most popular
Babies named Octavia per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Vermont: 6.6 per 1,000 (32 girls)
- Wyoming: 4.2 per 1,000 (18 girls)
- West Virginia: 4.0 per 1,000 (106 girls)
- Maine: 3.5 per 1,000 (54 girls)
- South Dakota: 2.8 per 1,000 (40 girls)
Octavia by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 289 | #305 |
| 1890s | 404 | #409 |
| 1900s | 491 | #430 |
| 1910s | 802 | #503 |
| 1920s | 846 | #680 |
| 1930s | 524 | #775 |
| 1940s | 421 | #1,151 |
| 1950s | 665 | #1,123 |
| 1960s | 849 | #1,002 |
| 1970s | 1,629 | #741 |
| 1980s | 3,053 | #484 |
| 1990s | 3,005 | #590 |
| 2000s | 1,492 | #1,062 |
| 2010s | 2,917 | #370 |
| 2020s | 6,591 | #247 |
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Questions
- Is Octavia a boy or girl name?
- Octavia is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Octavia were girls.
- How popular is the name Octavia?
- 982 baby girls were named Octavia in the US in 2025, making it the 308th most popular girl name.
- When was Octavia most popular?
- Octavia peaked in 2021, when 1,238 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #247 in 2022.
- How many people are named Octavia?
- 24,117 babies have been named Octavia in the US since 1880. We estimate about 20,293 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 22.
- Where is Octavia most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Octavia was most common in Vermont, at 6.6 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.