Optat
- Meaning:
- Desired, longed for
- Origin:
- Latin
About the name Optat
From the Latin optatus, desired. St Optatus was a 4th-century North African bishop.
Name day and nicknames
- Name day:
- August 31
Popularity with newborns
Optat has not appeared on the annual list of the most popular newborn names. That list covers the 50 most common names for each sex, so the name was given to fewer children than the 50th name of the year — not to none.
People with this name in Croatia
Fewer than 10 people in Croatia are called Optat. The census does not publish exact figures below 10, so the real number is somewhere between 0 and 9. That is #2897 among all the names in Imenko.
Sources
Counts of people living in Croatia come from the Croatian Bureau of Statistics' 2021 census, which suppresses any figure below 10. Yearly birth figures come from its annual list of the most popular newborn names. Meaning, origin, name day and nicknames are curated by Imenko.