Ocean

Boy · recorded 1974–2025 · given to both girls and boys (about 1.1 to 1)

  • #717in 2025
  • 1 in 4,554boys in 2025
  • +413%last ten years
  • 2.1×in Florida

2024 was its biggest year ever, up 413% in ten years.

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Meaning

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Its story

Popularity since 1974

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Per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.
See the 37 recorded years as a table
Ocean, per million boys born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
YearPer million
19744
19903
19913
19925
199312
199420
199513
199617
199719
199817
199914
200014
200116
200228
200335
200423
200534
200640
200748
200855
200945
201042
201137
201233
201346
201444
201543
201655
201760
201891
2019103
2020169
2021210
2022271
2023272
2024282
2025220

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Compared with the country as a whole, pooled over 2023–2025.

  1. Florida 2.1×
  2. New York 1.7×
  3. North Carolina 1.6×
  4. New Jersey 1.5×
  5. California 1.4×

More like it

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The numbers

Every figure

Births in 2025
375
Rank in 2025
#717
How rare
1 in 4,554 boys
Since 1974
4,411

Most popular in 2024, at 282 per million boys born.

Over the ten years to 2025 it has risen by 413% per million boys born.

Top 5 states by concentration, pooled over 2023–2025
StateTimes the national rateBirths pooled
Florida2.1×157
New York1.7×115
North Carolina1.6×63
New Jersey1.5×46
California1.4×200

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.