How rare is the name Octavio?

19,763 people in the United States have the first name Octavio, about 1 in 15,283. It ranks #1,613 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

OCTAVIO

#1,613

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
19,763
About
1 in 15,283
This common or more
76%
Who bears it

Of the 19,763 people named Octavio, 96% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino and 2.5% as White. Virtually all are male (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Octavio peaked in 2003, when 437 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19082025
Peak year
2003
Births that year
437
In 2025*
154 ▼65%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 11,454 babies have been given the name since 1908. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Octavio by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #1,578. The largest share of babies named Octavio, 35.2%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1900s#4,6306
1910s#4,80076
1920s#3,492199
1930s#3,001212
1940s#3,289211
1950s#2,978338
1960s#2,561519
1970s#1,9241,027
1980s#1,7851,412
1990s#1,6242,153
2000s#1,5782,871
2010s#2,5461,610
2020s#2,862820
Greatest Generation 1901–272%
Silent Generation 1928–453.3%
Baby boom 1946–645.9%
Generation X 1965–8012.7%
Millennials 1981–9624.3%
Generation Z 1997–1235.2%
2013 and later16.7%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Octavio is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Octavio has been most common in California (4.7×), Arizona (4.1×), and Texas (3.5×), and least common in New Jersey (0.14×).

9,115 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Also a last name

As a last name, Octavio ranks #90,848 of 156,621, with 218 people. See Octavio as a last name

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