Meaning not yet researched.
Ocean: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 375 in 2025. Its best rank was #592 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #592 in 2024; #720 in 2025. About 52% of babies named Ocean in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#720 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #592.
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Ocean: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 375 boys in 2025. Peak: #592 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 485 (2024).
In 2025, 375 US boys were named Ocean, making it the 720th most common boys’ name of the year, down 128 places from #592 in 2024. That is 110 fewer than the 485 boys named Ocean in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #592, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 485. For comparison, it was #1,821 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 345 US girls were named Ocean, making it the 787th most common girls’ name of the year, up 45 places from #832 in 2024. That is 17 more than the 328 girls named Ocean in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #755, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 382. For comparison, it was #2,731 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ocean in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 5 babies. In all, 8,233 US babies have been given the name, 46% of them girls and 54% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 4,375 babies named Ocean.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,025 US boys were named Ocean; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 485. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,555 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ocean ranked highest in Rhode Island in 2025, at #196 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Ozan, Oceane and Oceann are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ozan (335), Oceane (208), Oceann (71), Osean (50), Osian (50), Ozian (15).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ocean in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 26 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhode Island | 6 | #196 | — |
| Hawaii | 6 | #204 | #265 |
| Alabama | 12 | #442 | — |
| Florida | 39 | #473 | #1,354 |
| New York | 33 | #497 | #1,314 |
| Nevada | 6 | #497 | — |
| New Jersey | 15 | #514 | — |
| Oregon | 7 | #514 | — |
| North Carolina | 19 | #530 | — |
| Michigan | 15 | #558 | — |
| California | 49 | #605 | #1,074 |
| Washington | 11 | #629 | — |
| Louisiana | 7 | #648 | — |
| Utah | 6 | #677 | — |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #765 | — |
| Ohio | 11 | #782 | — |
| Maryland | 6 | #782 | — |
| Texas | 33 | #822 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #833 | — |
| Georgia | 11 | #835 | — |
| Missouri | 6 | #844 | — |
| Virginia | 8 | #852 | — |
| Minnesota | 5 | #902 | — |
| Arizona | 6 | #905 | — |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,107 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 345 | #787 | 375 | #720 |
| 2024 | 328 | #832 | 485 | #592 |
| 2023 | 335 | #823 | 466 | #609 |
| 2022 | 382 | #755 | 473 | #596 |
| 2021 | 313 | #871 | 368 | #712 |
| 2020 | 213 | #1,130 | 292 | #795 |
| 2019 | 193 | #1,212 | 184 | #1,087 |
| 2018 | 119 | #1,737 | 166 | #1,158 |
| 2017 | 77 | #2,379 | 111 | #1,505 |
| 2016 | 85 | #2,260 | 105 | #1,574 |
| 2015 | 65 | #2,731 | 82 | #1,821 |
| 2014 | 79 | #2,344 | 84 | #1,791 |
| 2013 | 62 | #2,800 | 87 | #1,706 |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,969 | 63 | #2,149 |
| 2011 | 43 | #3,646 | 70 | #1,982 |
| 2010 | 57 | #3,001 | 80 | #1,826 |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,923 | 89 | #1,740 |
| 2008 | 75 | #2,529 | 113 | #1,461 |
| 2007 | 91 | #2,192 | 99 | #1,590 |
| 2006 | 67 | #2,692 | 83 | #1,708 |
| 2005 | 93 | #2,028 | 67 | #1,906 |
| 2004 | 73 | #2,363 | 45 | #2,473 |
| 2003 | 66 | #2,486 | 69 | #1,759 |
| 2002 | 56 | #2,738 | 54 | #2,039 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,913 | 32 | #2,909 |
| 2000 | 46 | #3,056 | 28 | #3,131 |
| 1999 | 43 | #3,091 | 27 | #3,075 |
| 1998 | 57 | #2,450 | 32 | #2,634 |
| 1997 | 71 | #2,018 | 35 | #2,384 |
| 1996 | 39 | #3,074 | 32 | #2,472 |
| 1995 | 33 | #3,406 | 25 | #2,900 |
| 1994 | 39 | #3,025 | 38 | #2,164 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,492 | 24 | #2,922 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,205 | 10 | #5,540 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,416 | 6 | #7,967 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,756 | 6 | #7,833 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,309 | — | — |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,979 | — | — |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,299 | — | — |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,678 | 6 | #5,067 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,215 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).