Octavius is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Octavius is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 boys have been named Octavius. In the SmartGenius ranking, Octavius is #1,939 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Octavius.
The odds of having a man or boy named Octavius in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Octavius is registered in 19 states, among which are Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado or Florida. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Octavius live in Georgia, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 9,725 men and boys in Georgia for their name before you meet one who answers with Octavius.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter O is pretty rare as an initial letter for boys' names: only 1.8% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an O. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With eight letters, the name Octavius is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that since 1.8% of all boys’ names begin with an O, this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course single names beginning with an O, which are quite popular
If your name is Octavius and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Octavius, you can simply say:
Orange
Cat
Tiger
Apple
Violin
Igloo
Unicorn
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Octavius
Octavius
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
O
C
T
A
V
I
U
S
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
O
C
T
A
V
I
U
S
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Octavius sounds like this:
