Recorded 1971–2025 · United States
Ocean was most popular in 2022, when 855 American babies were given the name — ranking #755 that year. In 2025 it ranked #884, with 720 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 8,233 people named Ocean.
Ocean first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1971, which makes it about 54 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 41 of the 55 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 8,233 American births named Ocean between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 8,161 are estimated to be alive today.
720 American babies were named Ocean in 2025, ranking #884 that year.
Ocean is rising. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 774 births a year, against 139 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of +458% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Ocean is a unisex name — 46.4% of the 8,233 Americans given it were girls and 53.6% were boys. It changed hands: since 2020 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that. In births since 2016 it is 44% girls and 56% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 8,161 Americans named Ocean are alive today — 99% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 6 years old, and half are between 3 and 16.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org