Oktavia
Fewer than fifty women in Poland carry it, so most people here will never meet one. It comes from Latin for "eighth", a name once given to an eighth child.
Oktavia Pronunciation
What Oktavia means
Where Oktavia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Oktavia grows from Latin, from octavus, meaning eighth. In old Roman households the count of children could settle a name, and a girl born eighth might be marked this way. The masculine root Octavius gave the family name of the man who became Augustus, and its feminine, Octavia, traveled beside it.
One Octavia stands out in the record. Octavia the Younger, sister of Augustus and wife of Mark Antony, was remembered in Rome for raising his children alongside her own. So the name reaches Polish through Latin rather than through any Roman living here.
In Poland it settled as Oktawia, and the same root turns masculine in Oktawian. The name stays rare. On a school register you might find one Oktawia in a whole year, her imieniny falling on the twentieth of November. The meaning underneath has not moved. Eighth in Latin, ósma in Polish.
How many people are named Oktavia
1 in 563596 women in Poland is named Oktavia. 40 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6152 among female names.
Oktavia's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Where Oktavia is most popular
Oktavia is most popular in Subcarpathian, 796% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Silesian (+375%).
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Subcarpathian2 girls born+796%
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Silesian2 girls born+375%
Oktavia as a middle name
Oktavia is a first name for 40 women in Poland and a middle name for another 7, an 85/15 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3080th, between Nneoma (7) and Ottilie (7).
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#3078 Nkem7
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#3079 Nneoma7
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#3080 Oktavia7
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#3081 Ottilie7
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#3082 Palma7