Oceana
Oceana was given to 43 girls in 2025, #3,561 among girls’ names; 1,147 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,130 Americans named Oceana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 9 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Oceana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Oceana?
#3,561 among girls’ names, 2025
Oceana rose from #5,789 in 2015 to #3,561 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 12.9 to 26.8 per million.
53 babies in 2004, the peak
Oceana peaked in 2004, when 53 girls were given it, #2,982 among girls’ names. The 43 births of 2025 are 81% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #3,561 | 26.8 |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,107 | 16.0 |
| 2023 | 35 | #4,167 | 21.8 |
| 2022 | 42 | #3,690 | 25.6 |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,386 | 19.5 |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,851 | 16.7 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,624 | 17.9 |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,429 | 18.8 |
| 2017 | 35 | #4,204 | 20.3 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,953 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,789 | 12.9 |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,162 | 20.2 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,270 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,457 | 18.7 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,442 | 18.8 |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,071 | 15.8 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,905 | 16.3 |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,332 | 19.0 |
| 2007 | 42 | #3,836 | 21.8 |
| 2006 | 37 | #4,061 | 19.5 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,669 | 15.7 |
| 2004 | 53 | #2,982 | 28.9 |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,636 | 21.3 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,248 | 16.7 |
| 2001 | 42 | #3,294 | 23.3 |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,856 | 18.2 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,837 | 10.1 |
| 1998 | 36 | #3,406 | 20.4 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,515 | 19.0 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,148 | 14.8 |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,067 | 14.8 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,553 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,509 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,412 | 9.8 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,800 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,596 | 15.8 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,419 | 7.1 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,835 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,255 | 3.5 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,275 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,394 | 3.4 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,784 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Oceana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Oceana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Oceana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Oceana, and how old are they?
1,130 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,147 Americans ever recorded as Oceana. The median Oceana alive today is 18 years old; half are between 9 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 837 people named Oceana (834 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 935 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 10 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 160 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 546 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 412 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Oceana born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,708 | 1.1× |
Where Oceana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Oceana is most over-represented in California: since 1915 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Oceana with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,907 babies since 1880, Oceana is the most given (60% of them). In 2025 it was given to 43 of their 58 babies (74%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Oceana
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Oceana and names like it
- Compare Oceana and OceannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sOceana peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Oceana since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Oceana.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Oceana alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with OMost given first.