Ocean
2025 SSA
2025 SSA
About Ocean
Nature names like Ocean and River are flowing back into favor, especially with nature lovers and green-oriented parents. In 2024, it was given to 483 boys and 325 girls, making this a unisex favorite in the US, while in the UK, it is considerably more popular for girls.
Ocean for boys#720 US
Forest Whitaker, an inspired child namer (his other kids are called Sonnet and True), has a son named Ocean Alexander, while Amber Heard named one of her twins Ocean in 2025, brother to Agnes.
Variations include Oceanus, the name of the child who was born during the voyage of the Mayflower, and Oceane, a wildly popular girls' name in France.
Ocean for girls#787 US
Ocean is a nature name that comes right out and states its meaning and association. Full of power and depth, Ocean is one of the fastest-rising baby names for both girls and boys, making the US Top 1000 for both genders in 2021. Oceane, the version that's trendy in France, was used for only 11 baby girls in the US in the same year. Ocean-lovers who want to be less obvious can choose such subtler names that mean ocean as Jennifer or Marissa, but coming right out and using Ocean is a perfectly valid way to go.
Pronounced OH-shun.
As of October 2026, Ocean ranked #720 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #591 in 2024, Nameberry popularity #500.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · boys | Births · boys | US rank · girls | Births · girls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,791 | 84 | #2,344 | 79 |
| 2015 | #1,821 | 82 | #2,731 | 65 |
| 2016 | #1,573 | 105 | #2,260 | 85 |
| 2017 | #1,504 | 111 | #2,378 | 77 |
| 2018 | #1,158 | 166 | #1,736 | 119 |
| 2019 | #1,087 | 184 | #1,212 | 193 |
| 2020 | #795 | 292 | #1,129 | 213 |
| 2021 | #712 | 368 | #871 | 313 |
| 2022 | #597 | 472 | #755 | 382 |
| 2023 | #609 | 465 | #823 | 335 |
| 2024 | #591 | 483 | #833 | 325 |
| 2025 | #720 | 375 | #787 | 345 |
World rankings
Ocean for girls
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Ocean on lists
Famous Oceans
- Ocean MaturoBoy
American child actor
- Ocean VuongBoy
American poet and essayist
- Ocean King PenaVega (b. 2016)Boy
son of actors Carlos and Alexa PenaVega
- Brady Ocean Terenzi (b. 2015)Boy
son of singers Marc Terenzi and Sarah Connor
- Charlie Ocean Goldblum (b. 2015)Boy
son of actor Jeff Goldblum
- Jet Ocean Letts (b. 2017)Boy
son of model Gemma Ward and David Letts
- Frank OceanBoy
American singer
- (Crystal) Ocean Supri Heavenly Blue Sky HellmanGirl
Canadian actress
- Ocean RamseyGirl
environmentalist known for free diving with great white sharks, born in Hawaii
- Ocean Rain Olsen (b. 2025)Girl
daughter of actor Eric Christian Olsen
Ocean in pop culture
- Daniel "Danny" OceanBoy
main character in the "Ocean's 11" films
- OceanGirl
character on TV's "Liv and Maddie"
- Danny OceanGirl
Main character in Ocean’s Eleven
- Debbie OceanGirl
Main character in Ocean's 8.