Ocean

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Ocean: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Ocean: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #260, and it stood at #676 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
64times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#260highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#916
1997	#672
1998	#672
1999	#1160
2000	#969
2001	#1025
2002	#761
2003	#742
2004	#676
2005	#583
2006	#770
2007	#589
2008	#580
2009	#621
2010	#601
2011	#973
2012	#635
2013	#684
2014	#750
2015	#760
2016	#727
2017	#701
2018	#689
2019	#616
2020	#439
2021	#333
2022	#313
2023	#260
2024	#296

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #296 among girls in England and Wales, #631 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #638 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #916 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #260 among girls in England and Wales, in 2023 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #296 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Ocean appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,811 births with the name.

Ocean across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Ocean's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2357 (1996)	#731 (2022)	#757 (2024)	28 of 29	493 (1996–2024)	45 (2022)
England and Wales · Girls	#916 (1996)	#260 (2023)	#296 (2024)	29 of 29	1,811 (1996–2024)	172 (2023)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#377 (2005)	#350 (2021)	#350 (2021)	2 of 17	7 (2005–2021)	4 (2021)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#747 (2022)	#631 (2024)	#631 (2024)	3 of 3	12 (2022–2024)	5 (2024)

Ocean by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Ocean in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	112	4 of 10	28
2000s	437	10 of 10	44
2010s	563	10 of 10	56
2020sbusiest	699	5 of 10	140

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 140 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2020 and 2021, when recorded births rose by 46, from 96 to 142.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Ocean appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #260 in England and Wales in 2023.

Ocean's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#296	149	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#757	45	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#260	172	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#791	41	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#313	140	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#731	45	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#333	142	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#771	43	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#439	96	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1051	26	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#616	64	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1001	28	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#689	58	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#932	31	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#701	58	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1703	14	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#727	55	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1319	20	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#760	51	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1673	14	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#750	52	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1819	12	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#684	58	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2055	10	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#635	66	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1430	17	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#973	36	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1600	14	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#601	65	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1724	13	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#621	60	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1218	20	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#580	65	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2097	9	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#589	61	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1014	24	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#770	40	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1469	13	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#583	56	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1190	17	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#676	43	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#742	37	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1962	7	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#761	33	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2636	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1025	20	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#3134	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#969	22	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1160	17	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2425	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#672	36	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1821	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#672	36	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1761	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#916	23	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2357	4	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#350	4	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	female	#377	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#676	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#631	5	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#638	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #260, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 172 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2005, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Obie · #731, 21y
Obinna · #451, 28y
Oceana · #1692, 22y
Oceane · #2325, 20y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Sacha · #261, 32y
Blossom · #262, 30y
Dolly · #258, 30y
Emmeline · #262, 33y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Franklin · #260, 29y
Dafydd · #261, 28y
Dayle · #261, 7y
Blossom · #262, 30y

Ocean was ranked #260 in England and Wales · Girls in 2023. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Ocean and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Ocean without appearing here.

Ocean moved ahead of

Robyn Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3651 and #3009 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #1724 and #4678.
Sander Compare
In 2005 they stood at #3134 and #2587 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1469 and #3385.
Keith Compare
In 2015 they stood at #1673 and #1673 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #1319 and #2804.
Graeme Compare
In 2005 they stood at #3651 and #3009 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1469 and #2870.

Moved ahead of Ocean

Arlo Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2425 and #2943 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #3134 and #1949.
Mila Compare
In 2010 they stood at #601 and #616 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #973 and #261.
Cooper Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1761 and #2022 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #1821 and #1110.
Hudson Compare
In 1998 they stood at #1821 and #2419 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #2425 and #1850.

Moved the opposite way to Ocean

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ocean went from #2357 to #757 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ocean went from #916 to #296 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ocean went from #2357 to #757 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ocean went from #916 to #296 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.

Moved the same way as Ocean

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ocean went from #916 to #296 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ocean went from #2357 to #757 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ocean went from #2357 to #757 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ocean went from #2357 to #757 and Alfred from #218 to #81.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #260 in England and Wales in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ocean

Ocean at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ocean across 4 official records

Ocean by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Ocean appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Ocean moved ahead of

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Ocean at a glance

Ocean across 4 official records

Ocean by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Ocean appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Ocean

Ocean and the names beside it

Ocean moved ahead of

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