Octavio
Masculine · “Eighth”
Octavio is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 11,449 boys against 5 girls since 1880.
Octavio is the Spanish and Portuguese heir of a Roman family name, Octavius, and it has been in continuous use for something like two thousand years. It runs on four beats with the stress in the middle — ok-TAH-vee-oh — and shortens, in everyday Spanish, to the brisk Tavo. Long record, short nickname, and no spelling argument in either language.
How old is the name Octavio?
Octavio first appears in US birth records in 1908 — 117 years ago. The typical Octavio alive today was born around 1997, making them about 28 years old. About 10,500 people named Octavio are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Octavio most popular?
Octavio peaked in 2003, reaching #531 nationally. Today it ranks #1276, 745 places below that high. See the whole 2003 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Octavus to Octavio
The story of Octavio
The name begins with the Latin octavus, "eighth," and the Roman clan that carried it as a family name — the Octavii. Its most consequential bearer was Gaius Octavius, who after his adoption by Julius Caesar became the emperor Augustus, which is why Octavius and its expanded form Octavianus stayed in the European name stock long after Rome fell. Spanish and Portuguese smoothed Octavius into Octavio, and the name settled deeply in Latin America; the Mexican poet Octavio Paz carried it through the twentieth century. It reached the United States mainly with Spanish-speaking families, and has been recorded here without a real gap ever since.
Meaning
Eighth, from Latin octavus
The Roman gens Octavia took its name from the numeral, and in the Roman naming system such number-names were often given by birth order.
How the name formed
- Octavus
- Octavius
- Octavianus
- Octavio
Related forms: Ottavio · Otávio · Octave · Octavius · Octavi · Oktawiusz
Pronouncing Octavio
ok-TAH-vee-oh
Four syllables, stress on the second. The c is a hard k. English speakers sometimes flatten the ending to "-vio" in one beat, which native Spanish speakers keep as two.
Nicknames for Octavio
High
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1908
- Most boys named
- 2006342 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #531reached in 2003
- Change vs 2023
- +10.0%154 in 2025, from 140
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Octavio in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ottavio in Italian — same name
- Otávio in Portuguese — spelling variant
- Octave in French — same name
- Octavius in Latin — same name
- Octavi in Catalan — same name
- Oktawiusz in Polish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Arizona.
Octavios among us
people named Octavio are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 11,091 born in 2025 was named Octavio
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Sherwood test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Octavio's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Sherwood climbed just as high around 1938, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Sherwood's path sketches the road Octavio is walking now.
Octavio sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Octavio is headed
Octavio should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Octavio beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Octavio in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Documented in continuous use since Roman times, with a meaning that is settled and easy to explain in one word.
- Has a ready-made short form, Tavo, already in everyday Spanish use — no need to invent one.
- Works unchanged in Spanish and Portuguese, and has close cousins in Italian, French and Catalan for family across borders.
- Spelled the way it sounds in Spanish, and familiar enough in the United States that most people will have heard it before.
- It is uncommon enough that a child will likely be the only Octavio in a school — pleasant for some families, and a lifetime of spelling it out for others.
- English speakers unfamiliar with it often reach first for Octavia, the feminine Roman name, or shift the stress. A single correction usually fixes it.
- "Eighth" invites the obvious question about birth order, so expect to answer it now and then — the Roman family name is the whole answer.
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Frequently asked
- How many Octavios are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 10,500 people named Octavio are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Octavio in 2025?
- Octavio ranks #1276 among US boy names in 2025, with 154 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Octavio?
- About 1 in every 11,091 US boys born in 2025 was named Octavio — 154 in all.
- Will my child share the name Octavio with classmates?
- Octavio will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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