Octavo
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: eighth
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/oɡtabo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Octavo is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the Philippines.
- PHPhilippines
- MXMexico
- PYParaguay
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A sheet of paper 7 to 10 inches (= 17.78 to 25.4 cm) high and 4.5 to 6 inches (= 11.43 to 15.24 cm) wide, the size varying with the large original sheet used to create it. It is made by folding the original sheet three times to produce eight leaves.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Octavo is read(measured from records)
Octavo is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish58%
eighth
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English32%
A sheet of paper 7 to 10 inches (= 17.78 to 25.4 cm) high and 4.5 to 6 inches (= 11.43 to 15.24 cm) wide, the size varying with the large original sheet used to create it. It is made by folding the original sheet three times to produce eight leaves.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Octavo is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of octāvus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Asturian, neuter of octavu
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, eighthly
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Meksikas 19. gs. vara monēta, 1/2 reāla
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 190 | #101,282 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 169 | #105,600 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 101 | #149,328 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 89 | — |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 7 | #6,303 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Octavo come from?
- A sheet of paper 7 to 10 inches (= 17.78 to 25.4 cm) high and 4.5 to 6 inches (= 11.43 to 15.24 cm) wide, the size varying with the large original sheet used to create it. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Octavo?
- A machine transcription gives /oɡtabo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Octavo mean?
- In Spanish, eighth
- In which country does Octavo have the most bearers?
- Octavo is most frequently recorded in the Philippines.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/octavoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Octavo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.