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Océane

Girl · Greek, through French

Océane

Say it: oh-say-AHN

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Meaning

A modern French name from océan 'ocean', from Greek ōkeanos.

Certainscholars agree on this meaning.

A modern French coinage that peaked in the 1990s.

Its wave through time

Rare in the records

In the United States

0246818801900192019401960198020002020Peak 2010per million babies of that sex
  • 124 babies given this name since 2002
  • At its height in 2010, about 1 in 161,500 girls
  • 6 babies in 2020

Through the ages

  1. The Modern Age1880 to today

Used by

French

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Where this comes from

  • Modern use, as a recently created name
  • National birth statistics of European countries source
  • United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.