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 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Hawaii#190 · 1 in 576
- Georgia#391 · 1 in 1,934
- Florida#418 · 1 in 2,313
- Nevada#443 · 1 in 1,977
- Connecticut#455 · 1 in 2,621
Best ever in a state: #97 in Hawaii, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | #190 | 6 | 1 in 576 |
| Georgia | #391 | 26 | 1 in 1,934 |
| Florida | #418 | 39 | 1 in 2,313 |
| Nevada | #443 | 6 | 1 in 1,977 |
| Connecticut | #455 | 5 | 1 in 2,621 |
| New York | #553 | 26 | 1 in 3,371 |
| Oregon | #585 | 5 | 1 in 3,096 |
| California | #619 | 46 | 1 in 4,122 |
| Alabama | #646 | 6 | 1 in 3,628 |
| Ohio | #740 | 11 | 1 in 4,953 |
| Virginia | #815 | 7 | 1 in 5,523 |
| Washington | #848 | 6 | 1 in 5,528 |
| Indiana | #908 | 5 | 1 in 6,493 |
| Pennsylvania | #959 | 7 | 1 in 7,713 |
| Tennessee | #964 | 5 | 1 in 6,815 |
| New Jersey | #983 | 5 | 1 in 7,863 |
| Illinois | #1,031 | 7 | 1 in 7,806 |
| Texas | #1,064 | 19 | 1 in 8,908 |
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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 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 7,589 of them was named Ocean, which outranked 93.6% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 5,911 of them was named Ocean, which outranked 94.4% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.