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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Octavia

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

#308

down −14 places

2025 births

982

down −92 births

All-time births

23,978

4% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2021
1,238 births
Best rank
#247
in 2022
First recorded
1880
#306 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1989
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
146 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 20211,238#248Peak
  2. 20221,238#247
  3. 20231,129#279
  4. 20241,074#294
  5. 2025982#308

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #247 in 2022 · peak births 1,238 in 2021

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 1% boys■ 99% girls

139 boys · 23,978 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Octavia has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.