Given name
Ovid
“a shepherd; an egg”
Ovid is used as a given name. One Latin interpretation is “a shepherd; an egg.”
Original LatinOvidius
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “a shepherd; an egg.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
How it developed
In English usage, Ovid developed from OVIDIUS.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1886. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ovid through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 741
- 741 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1915
- 34 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1989. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 34 in 1915. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 315 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ovid’s family of names
In Norwegian usage, Ovid has a feminine form in Ovedia. Ovid has a related form in Ovidio. Ovid has a related form in Ovidiu.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 11
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ovid
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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