American Family Name Origins:
D'Ottavio
Frequency: (175)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Italian: patronymic from the personal name Ottavio, from Latin Octavius (from octavus ‘eighth’). This was a Roman imperial family name, the gens name of the Roman Emperor Augustus.
GIVEN NAMES: Italian 15%. Angelo, Antonio, Domenica, Gianni, Guido, Nino, Salvatore, Stefano.
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