October is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name October is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 girls have been named October. In the SmartGenius ranking, October is #2,764 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named October.
In fact, the name October did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), October seemed to be more popular than ever in 2022. Although the name never ranked higher than #2,162, 75 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is October, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name October was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named October in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 172 women and girls named October, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 172 women and girls named October live in no more than 8 different states, including for example California, Georgia, Michigan, Missouri and North Carolina. In all other 41 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called October. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name October lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is October and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named October relative to its female population is California. And even there, only one in 225,953 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called October.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter O is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 1.0% of all common girls' names in the US begin with an O. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With seven letters, the name October has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 1.0% of all girls' names begin with an O, this initial letter is significantly less common than the other letters on average. However, individual girls' names with O are really popular, the most common currently being Olivia.
If your name is October 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 October, you can simply say:
Orange
Cat
Tiger
Orange
Butterfly
Elephant
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
October
October
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
O
C
T
O
B
E
R
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
O
B
E
R
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. October sounds like this:
