Ocean
- #785 for girls in 2025, 345 births
- #717 for boys in 2025, 375 births
- Given to boys 53.6% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 485 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,411since 1974
Ocean over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #785 | 345 | #717 | 375 |
| 2024 | #832 | 328 | #590 | 485 |
| 2023 | #823 | 335 | #609 | 466 |
| 2022 | #754 | 382 | #596 | 473 |
| 2021 | #871 | 313 | #712 | 368 |
| 2020 | #1,130 | 213 | #794 | 292 |
| 2019 | #1,209 | 193 | #1,085 | 184 |
| 2018 | #1,727 | 119 | #1,154 | 166 |
| 2017 | #2,357 | 77 | #1,502 | 111 |
| 2016 | #2,247 | 85 | #1,563 | 105 |
| 2015 | #2,712 | 65 | #1,815 | 82 |
| 2014 | #2,323 | 79 | #1,781 | 84 |
| 2013 | #2,769 | 62 | #1,695 | 87 |
| 2012 | #2,935 | 58 | #2,132 | 63 |
| 2011 | #3,603 | 43 | #1,968 | 70 |
| 2010 | #2,976 | 57 | #1,816 | 80 |
| 2009 | #2,892 | 60 | #1,731 | 89 |
| 2008 | #2,511 | 75 | #1,452 | 113 |
| 2007 | #2,177 | 91 | #1,576 | 99 |
| 2006 | #2,669 | 67 | #1,698 | 83 |
| 2005 | #2,014 | 93 | #1,889 | 67 |
| 2004 | #2,345 | 73 | #2,452 | 45 |
| 2003 | #2,465 | 66 | #1,749 | 69 |
| 2002 | #2,709 | 56 | #2,019 | 54 |
| 2001 | #2,881 | 50 | #2,864 | 32 |
| 2000 | #3,020 | 46 | #3,075 | 28 |
| 1999 | #3,048 | 43 | #3,031 | 27 |
| 1998 | #2,429 | 57 | #2,599 | 32 |
| 1997 | #2,002 | 71 | #2,347 | 35 |
| 1996 | #3,028 | 39 | #2,441 | 32 |
| 1995 | #3,357 | 33 | #2,847 | 25 |
| 1994 | #2,988 | 39 | #2,123 | 38 |
| 1993 | #4,393 | 23 | #2,865 | 24 |
| 1992 | #5,051 | 19 | #5,236 | 10 |
| 1991 | #7,987 | 10 | #7,271 | 6 |
| 1990 | #5,549 | 16 | #7,178 | 6 |
| 1989 | #6,955 | 11 | — | |
| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 | — | |
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| 1975 | #5,984 | 9 | — | |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 | #4,634 | 6 |
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First appearance
1974
The first year at least five boys were named Ocean! It came in at #4,634, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1989, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Ocean is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
Top states · boys
- Rhode Island#177 · 1 in 521
- Hawaii#180 · 1 in 486
- Alabama#422 · 1 in 1,793
- Nevada#443 · 1 in 1,882
- Florida#466 · 1 in 2,450
Best ever in a state: #97 in Hawaii, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhode Island | #177 | 6 | 1 in 521 |
| Hawaii | #180 | 6 | 1 in 486 |
| Alabama | #422 | 12 | 1 in 1,793 |
| Nevada | #443 | 6 | 1 in 1,882 |
| Florida | #466 | 39 | 1 in 2,450 |
| Oregon | #474 | 7 | 1 in 2,151 |
| New Jersey | #488 | 15 | 1 in 2,651 |
| New York | #491 | 33 | 1 in 2,558 |
| North Carolina | #512 | 19 | 1 in 2,709 |
| Michigan | #540 | 15 | 1 in 2,680 |
| Louisiana | #591 | 7 | 1 in 2,733 |
| California | #602 | 49 | 1 in 3,581 |
| Washington | #604 | 11 | 1 in 2,982 |
| Utah | #621 | 6 | 1 in 3,277 |
| Massachusetts | #690 | 6 | 1 in 4,504 |
| Maryland | #702 | 6 | 1 in 3,816 |
| Ohio | #750 | 11 | 1 in 4,776 |
| Missouri | #789 | 6 | 1 in 4,635 |
| Georgia | #792 | 11 | 1 in 4,566 |
| Pennsylvania | #792 | 10 | 1 in 5,226 |
| Virginia | #798 | 8 | 1 in 4,657 |
| Minnesota | #807 | 5 | 1 in 4,900 |
| Texas | #809 | 33 | 1 in 5,305 |
| Arizona | #844 | 6 | 1 in 5,454 |
| Illinois | #1,023 | 7 | 1 in 7,079 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 127 spots since 2024 (#590 → #717)
- 77 spots since 2020 (#794 → #717)
- Biggest jump: 291 spots in 2020
- Biggest drop: 127 spots in 2025
Rise & fade · boys
50 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 2024 at #590 (485 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 6 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 2020–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 3,552
- Highest: 1 in 3,552 boys born in 2024 were named Ocean (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,555 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
Era · boys
The 2020s
- 55.7% of all boys named Ocean (2,459) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2020
- Mostly girls until 2019, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 6 | #4,634 (1974) | #4,634 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 235 | #2,123 (1994) | #3,794 |
| 2000s | 679 | #1,452 (2008) | #2,051 |
| 2010s | 1,032 | #1,085 (2019) | #1,651 |
| 2020s | 2,459 | #590 (2024) | #670 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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