Ocean — #591 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Ocean

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,030 babies named Ocean between 1974 and 2024, spanning 51 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ocean currently holds the #591 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 483 babies received it in a single year. Ocean is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 3,474 additional births since 1971.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ocean performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 2,080 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Ocean shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 716 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Ocean in 32 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ocean in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 4,030 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.