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The OCEAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 309 60887 0 1
United States (1880 census) 37 57755 0 1
Change since 1880 +272 -3132 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 1 389433 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for OCEAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 69 5287 0.002 17
Florida 54 24861 0.000 3
New York 41 35740 0.000 2
California 27 63105 0.000 1
New Jersey 20 40072 0.000 2
Top States for OCEAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 69 5287 0.002 17
Nevada 11 18097 0.001 6
Florida 54 24861 0.000 3
Maine 4 26003 0.000 3
Rhode Island 3 32295 0.000 3

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called OCEAN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called OCEAN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called OCEAN in South Carolina than any other state, but you are more likely to find a OCEAN by picking someone at random in South Carolina than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of OCEAN

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the OCEAN surname.

Ethnic distribution of OCEAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 199 64.4
White (Caucasian) 80 25.89
White (Hispanic) 13 4.21
Mixed Race 11 3.56
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the OCEAN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

OCEAN is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of OCEAN in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of OCEAN.

Similar names to OCEAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OCEAN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for OCEAN

The following words are slight variants of OCEAN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.