Octavio is the Spanish form of the Roman family name Octavius, from the Latin octavus, "eighth", the name the future emperor Augustus bore as a boy. Mexican poet Octavio Paz, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990, is its most celebrated bearer. In the United States Octavio peaked at number 532 in 2003, left the top 1000 in the 2010s and ranks number 1,278 in 2025.