Ocean

girls:

3.1k births since 1971

#3096 (46th percentile)

boys:

3.5k births since 1974

#2095 (54th percentile)

overall:

6.7k births since 1971

#3293 (57th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ocean".

1971 2023 19712023

Key Statistics

Total Births
3,142
Peak Births
380
Peak Year
2022
First Recorded
1971
Peak Percentile
37.8%
Current Percentile
33.3%
Peak Rank
#596
Current Rank
#632
Female statistics
Total Births
3,539
Peak Births
469
Peak Year
2022
First Recorded
1974
Peak Percentile
44.7%
Current Percentile
43.3%
Peak Rank
#511
Current Rank
#517
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Ocean

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Ocean. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Ocean is pronounced as OH-shuhn.

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100.0%
OH-shuhn (2 syllables)
Verified
100.0% confidence
OW1 SH AH0 N

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Ocean. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Ocean, please vote using the thumbs up button.

OH-shihn (2 syllables)
4 names 554 births
OW1 SH IH0 N
OH-sheen (2 syllables)
4 names 554 births
OW1 SH IY0 N

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like OW1 SH AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.