Ocean
#785 for girls in 2025, 345 births · #717 for boys in 2025, 375 births
Given to boys 53.6% of the time
- 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
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| 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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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 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Washington#901 · 1 in 7,392
- Florida#984 · 1 in 8,663
- California#1,142 · 1 in 14,244
- New York#1,432 · 1 in 15,387
- Texas#1,662 · 1 in 23,307
Best ever in a state: #97 in Hawaii, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | #901 | 5 | 1 in 7,392 |
| Florida | #984 | 11 | 1 in 8,663 |
| California | #1,142 | 17 | 1 in 14,244 |
| New York | #1,432 | 7 | 1 in 15,387 |
| Texas | #1,662 | 8 | 1 in 23,307 |
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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.
See more about Ocean
- 127 spots since 2024 (#590 → #717)
- 77 spots since 2020 (#794 → #717)
- 1,098 spots since 2015 (#1,815 → #717)
- Biggest jump: 291 spots in 2020 (#1,085 → #794)
- Biggest drop: 127 spots in 2025 (#590 → #717)
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 2024 at #590 (485 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 2020–2025
- 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%)
- 55.7% of all boys named Ocean (2,459) were born in this decade
- 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.
Ocean in 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
Top boys' names in 2009
More about 2009
girls
1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 30,619 of them was named Ocean, which outranked 85.7% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,852Tyla61
- #2,852Vayda61
- #2,852Yusra61
- #2,892Ocean60
- #2,892Abbagail60
- #2,892Adalia60
- #2,892Alesha60
- #2,940Addy59
- #2,940Adley59
- #2,940Aleeza59
Tied with 47 names at #2,892; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,983,573 boys got a published name in 2009; 1 in 22,287 of them was named Ocean, which outranked 88.1% of the 14,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,717Konrad90
- #1,717Murphy90
- #1,717Tai90
- #1,731Ocean89
- #1,731Abdulrahman89
- #1,731Carver89
- #1,731Duke89
- #1,742Boone88
- #1,742Cecil88
- #1,742Cornell88
Tied with 10 names at #1,731; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.