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Re: Octavia
Octavia is a cool name. I personally prefer the Italian variant, Ottavia, but it would likely get confused with Octavia on a constant basis anywayI have actually seen this name in real life a few times, and mainly on older teenagers / twenty-somethings (so, primarily Gen Z). Perhaps I should also add that all of these bearers were Black / African-American; and given the ages I doubt Octavia Spencer had a huge influence on popularity then (she wasn't hugely famous until The Help). So in the United Stated - my region, at least - Octavia seems to be used by Black families semi-regularly.***Please rate my personal name lists:www.behindthename.com/pnl/69381
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The science fiction writer Octavia Butler, who in 1995 was the first science fiction author to win a Macarthur Genius Grant, may have had some influence here. Though especially in the Southeast USA, names ending in -avia for girls and -avius for boys were fashionable with Black parents back then.
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