Name

Name OCTOBER

Between 1880 and 2022 there were 185 births of October in the countries below, which represents an average of 1 births of children bearing the first name October per year on average throughout this period.
On the last available year for each country, we count 10 births.

Other languages :
En Français

Prénom October
In Italiano

Nome October

Information about the first name October

The first name October has been assigned to:

0.54% to boys
99.46% to girls

The country where the first name October is the most common is:

United State of America

This first name is on trend: Female

This first name has 7 letters including 3 vowels and 4 consonants

October in Japanese ^*

Romaji	okutobaa
Katakana	オクトバー
Hiragana	おくとばー
* This is a phonetic conversion, not a translation.
Edit and Download this image

October in sign language

Edit and Download this image

October in binary language

01101111 01100011 01110100 01101111 01100010 01100101 01110010

Origin and meaning of name October

English

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French octobre, from Latin octōber (“eighth month”), from Latin octō (“eight”), from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw (“twice four”); + Latin -ber, from -bris, an adjectival suffix; October was the eighth month in the Roman calendar.

Alternative forms

Octobre (obsolete)

Anagrams

Octobre

Noun

October (uncountable)
(now historical) A type of ale traditionally brewed in October. [from 18th c.]

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA(key): /ɒkˈtəʊbə/
(US) enPR: äk-tōʹbər, IPA(key): /ɑkˈtoʊbəɹ/, [ɑkˈtʰoʊbɚ]
Rhymes: -əʊbə(ɹ)

Proper noun

October (plural Octobers)
The tenth month of the Gregorian calendar, following September and preceding November. Abbreviation: Oct.
(rare) A female given name from English.

Verb

October (third-person singular simple present Octobers, present participle Octobering, simple past and past participle Octobered)
(historical, transitive) In the early Soviet Union, to give a child a name tinged with Soviet revolutionary thought, as opposed to religious christening.

Latin

Etymology

From octo (“eight”) + -ber from -bris, an adjectival suffix.
By analogy with september, as if octō (“eight”) : septem. In the Roman calendar, the year began with mārtius (“March”), and octōber was the eighth month of the year.

Adjective

octōber (feminine octōbris, neuter octōbre); third-declension three-termination adjective
of October
1st century CE — Lucius Iunius Moderatus Columella, De Re Rustica, Book XII
Cum eius radicem mense octobri, quo[d] maxime matura est.

Descendants

Borrowings
Unsorted borrowingsThese borrowings are ultimately but perhaps not directly from Latin. They are organized into geographical and language family groups, not by etymology.

Noun

octōber m (genitive octōbris); third declension
October
1283 — Tomazina de Savere, published in Josip Lučić (1984) Spisi Dubrovačke Kancelarije, Knjiga II, page 293.
Die tercio octubris — on the third day of October

Pronunciation