Dog Names Meaning Ocean

62 names in this category, each with its meaning and background. See all meaning categories.

Darya

Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian form of Daria; also Persian for "sea, ocean".

Dayla

No documented meaning in the sources checked

Deniz

Turkish word for "sea"

Doria

Possibly a feminine form of Dorian or an elaboration of Dora

Halia

Ancient greek name meaning 'the dweller in the sea' or 'the briney'

Kai

Uncertain; possibly a Frisian diminutive of Gerhard, Nicolaas, Cornelis or Gaius, or Hawaiian for "sea"

Kaia

A diminutive of Katarina or Katariina

Kaido

The name means 'ocean pathway' in Japanese.

Kaijo

Kaikala

A Telugu-speaking community, also called Kaikalas or Karikala Bhaktulu

Kailani

From Hawaiian kai "sea" and lani "sky, heaven"

Kainoa

A Hawaiian given name

Kaio

Recorded as a masculine given name in Japanese, Basque and Brazilian Portuguese

Kehlani

A variant spelling of the Hawaiian names Kailani or Kalani

Keilani

Means "glorious heaven" in Hawaiian, from kei "glorious, dignified" and lani "heaven, sky, royal, majesty"

Keona

Hawaiian: ke ("the") + ona ("attractive"), also short for names beginning so

Kya

A name of uncertain origin, potentially meaning 'from the ocean' or 'victory' in various cultures

Lamar

From a French surname, from Old French la mare, "the pool"

Marcie

A diminutive of Marcia, the feminine of the Roman name Marcus.

Marea

Catalan and Spanish word for the tide, from Latin.

Maree

Variant of Marie

Marianna

Combination of Maria and Anna

Marie

French and Czech form of Maria.

Mariel

Diminutive of Maria, from Mary plus the suffix -el

Marin

Romanian, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian and French form of Marinus

Marina

Feminine form of Marinus, from Latin marinus, "of the sea"

Marine

French, Armenian and Georgian form of Marina

Maris

Of the sea, from the Latin title Stella Maris, "star of the sea"

Marisa

Italian, Spanish and Portuguese combination of Maria and Luisa.

Marita

Diminutive of Maria, or a Scandinavian variant of Margaret

Marla

American back-formation from Marlene, first used in the 1930s.

Marlene

Blend of Maria and Magdalene, referring to Mary Magdalene

Marli

Possibly a diminutive of Marlene

Marnie

A name of uncertain origin.

Maro

A given name recorded in Croatian, Galician, Greek and ecclesiastical use

Maros

Marousha

Maryn

No meaning is documented in the sources checked

Masya

A Yiddish feminine given name

Meara

An English surname, a shortened form of O'Meara

Meri

Means "sea" in Finnish; also a Georgian, Armenian and Greek form of Mary

Merrigan

Meryl

Variant of Muriel, from Scottish and Irish Gaelic, meaning "bright sea"

Mirren

A Scottish surname, also recorded as a Scottish feminine given name

Moanna

Recorded as a feminine given name; no meaning is documented in the sources checked.

Morgane

French, either a form of Morgan 2 or a feminine form of Morgan 1.

Morie

Recorded as a feminine given name in Japanese

Murray

From a Scottish or Irish surname; the Scottish one is from the place name Moray

Myrna

Anglicized form of the Irish name Muirne, meaning 'beloved'

Nessa

Nydia

A name of Greek origin meaning 'sea nymph'.

Ocean

From the English word ocean, a large body of water, ultimately from Greek Okeanos

Oceana

A feminine given name recorded in English, where it is rare

Oceane

French female given name meaning "from the ocean"

Ola Kai

Osea

Recorded as a masculine given name in Biblical Italian

Pontus

Latinized form of greek Πόντος (Pontos), meaning "sea"

Sagar

Modern form of the Sanskrit name Sagara

Sea

English and Japanese word for a very large body of salty water

Shylah

No documented meaning; recorded as a rare modern American English given name

Tide

English "tide", the periodic rise and fall of sea level

Umi

Sea or ocean in Japanese