Ovid
About 741 American babies have been named Ovid since 1886, most of them around 1915. It has not appeared in the national data since 1989. About 140 Ovids are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 72.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Ovid
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 741
- Estimated living today
- 140
- Median age today
- 72
- Peak year
- 1915
- Best rank
- 1,100th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1886
How old the living Ovids are
born that year still alive today
Of the 741 babies given the name since 1886, about 140 are alive — 19 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1953 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin
From Latin Ovidius, name of a Roman gens.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Names of 1915
The most popular boys’ names the year Ovid peaked:
Related names
Ovid against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.