Octavio
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Spanish/Italian form of Octavius; eighth
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Octavio is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 2K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 2.5K
- CLChile≈1 in 3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 373 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
19,763 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Spanish/Italian form of Octavius; eighth
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Octavio is read(measured from records)
Octavio 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.
- Spanish78%
Del latín Octauius: 'el octavo nacido'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- English9.9%
Spanish/Italian form of Octavius; eighth
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Octavio counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 19,763 | 1 in 17K | 20K | Octavio | 373 |
| CO Colombia | #391 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | 3 | Octavio | 109 |
| AR Argentina | #433 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | 769 | Octavio | 106 |
| PE Peru | #376 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Octavio | 81 |
| VE Venezuela | #341 | 7,571 | 1 in 3.8K | 7.6K | Octavio | 61 |
| CL Chile | #227 | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | 67 | Octavio | 111 |
| NI Nicaragua | #113 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Octavio | 37 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 1,178 | 1 in 2.9K | 1.2K | — | 43 |
19,763 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
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)
Octavio 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.
From Latin. See }Octavius in main dictionary.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In German, männl. Vom., spanische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Hijo nacido en octavo lugar
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Latin, dative/ablative singular of Octāvius
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Octavio Zedlitz-Neukirchb. 1840DEGerman politician (1840-1919)
- Octavio Pazb. 1914MXMexican writer, poet an diplomat (1914–1998)
- Octavio Lepageb. 1923VEPresident of Venezuela (acting) in 1993
- Octavio Ocampob. 1943MXMexican artist
- Miguel Vargasb. 1950DOnot in their usual nameDominican Republic politician and businessman
- Octavio Zambranob. 1958ECEcuadorian association football manager
- Tony Fernándezb. 1962DOnot in their usual nameDominican baseball player (1962–2020)
- Octavio Dotelb. 1973DObaseball player from the Dominican Republic
- Octávio Mateusb. 1975PTPortuguese dinosaur paleontologist and biologist
- Octávio Merlo Mantecab. 1993BRBrazilian footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 64 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 20K | #1,613 |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 7.6K | #185 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.2K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.2K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 769 | #185 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 367 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 367 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 154 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 68 | #1,613 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 67 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1986 | 5 | — |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 2012 | 4 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- What does the name Octavio mean, and where does it come from?
- Spanish/Italian form of Octavius; eighth Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- In which country does Octavio have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 20 thousand people named Octavio, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled octavio.
- Is Octavio a male or female name?
- Octavio is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Octavio?
- In the etymology graph, Octaviano, Octavius and Octave are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Octavio?
- In the United States, the national register counted 19,763 people named Octavio in 2020, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is Octavio compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Octavio is the 113th most common given name of 16,569 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/octavioThe 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, “Octavio” — the 113th most common given name in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.