Given name & surname
Ovide
Ovide is a masculine given name from Latin. It is used in French.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1910. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ovide through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 140
- 140 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1921
- 11 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 7 in 1943. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 139 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.
Ovide’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ovide
- Ovide DecrolyBelgian psychologist (1871–1932)
- Daniel SoubeyranFrench rower (1875-1959)
- Ovide CharleboisCanadian Catholic prelate1862–1933
- Joseph-Marie CanivezBelgian librarian and historian (1878–1952)
- Ovide YencesseFrench sculptor (1869–1947)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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