Ocean

A female given name from English, of modern usage.

Proper noun

  1. A female given name from English, of modern usage.
    • 'Ocean still isn't sleeping through the night.' I don't blame her. She's probably traumatised by her ridiculous name. - 2019 March 5, Elly Griffiths, The Stranger Diaries, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 25:
  2. A township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States, which originally extended to the ocean.
  3. A township in Ocean County, New Jersey.
  4. The deity Oceanus.
    • But he must ever watch the northern Bear, Who from her frozen height with jealous eye Confronts the Dog and the Hunter in the south, And is alone not dipt in Ocean's stream. - 1869, Matthew Arnold, Early Poems,...

Origin

From ocean (“sea”), inspired by the fashionable French female name Océane.