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Ocea

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Ocea has been given to 27 babies in the U.S. since 1895. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1918, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Ocea, 2022

1 in 677,000

Ocea over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ocea: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ocea means

Ocea is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Ocea is used in Old English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 27 girls were recorded with the name Ocea between 1895 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1918; its best national rank was #1,752 in 1895.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ocea?

Ocea had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ocea sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ocea. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Oceas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ocea was born before 1918 — so the typical Ocea is around 107 today.

Median birth year
1918
About 107 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
40.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5
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1910s — 40.7% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Ocea rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1918 (6)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#1,752
1895

Spellings of Ocea

Ocea is not the most common spelling — Olga is, with 21.1% against Ocea's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Ocea around the world

Where Ocea ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    2000–2024
    #5,047
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2013–2013
    #3,199
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    1951–2013
    #536
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ocea by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,752
1895
Peak year
1918
6 that year
First recorded
1895
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
27
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ocea

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Ocea

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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