girls:
1.1k births since 1915
#4637 (19th percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1915
#6660 (14th percentile)
The name Oceana is the #6,660 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,079 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 13.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,637 (18.9% percentile) for all time with 1,079 births since 1915.
Oceana first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (first recorded for girls in 1915). Birth data for Oceana is available in 40 out of the 109 years between 1915 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Oceana reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 5.1% percentile (ranked #889) with 26 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 26 births per million (ranked 5.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Oceana ranks #917 for girls (3.2% percentile) with 20 births per million, which is 76.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Oceana".
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Our model has identified 13 different pronunciations for the name Oceana. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 22.4% confident that Oceana is pronounced as oh-shee-A-nuh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is oh-SEE-uh-nuh, at 18.4% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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