[citation needed] It officially became a town in 1989, as a result of the Romanian rural systematization program.

He was supposedly buried on a nearby small island (also called Ovidiu) in the Siutghiol Lake.

The town of Ovidiu administers the villages of Poiana (historical names: Cocoșul - until 1964, Turkish: Horozlar - until 1926) and Culmea.

At the 2021 census Ovidiu had a population of 13,968 with a majority of Romanians (72.07%) and minorities of Tatars (2.14%), Roma (1.25%), Turks (1.15%), Lipovans (0.07%), Hungarians (0.05%), Bulgarians (0.03%), others (0.13%) and unknown (23.11%).

[3] At the 2011 census Ovidiu had a population of 13,847 with a majority of Romanians (81.01%) and minorities of Tatars (3.02%), Turks (2.51%), Roma (1.83%), Lipovans (0.06%), Greeks (0.04%), Germans (0.03%), others (0.13%) and unknown (11.37%).