Given name & surname

Octavien

Octavien is a masculine given name from Latin. It is used in French.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Octavien comes from Latin.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Latin Octavianus.

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The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1997. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Octavien through the years

Babies since 1880
23
23 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
2003
7 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
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Octavien in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1997–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2008. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 2003. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 106 as a surname in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Octavien’s family of names

In French usage, Octavien has a conventional equivalent in the English form Octavian. In French usage, Octavien has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form OTAVIANO.

Walk Octavien’s family in the name graph

OctavienOctavianOtaviano

The ring: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Across languages 2

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Octavien

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

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