Ocean & Sea Names
Sea names arrive from every coast: Hawaiian and Welsh, Latin and Irish, plus English words that simply sound like salt air. Together they make one of the freshest corners of the nature-name movement.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
In Welsh legend, a god born of the wave. | 6,208#41 | Up 1 rank positions in five years | 2001 | ||
Old Welsh 'sea-born'. | 977#312 | Down 117 rank positions in five years | 1995 | ||
The ocean's own gem. | 350#777 | Steady | 1918 | ||
A modern riff on maris, the sea. | 123#1,679 | Down 596 rank positions in five years | 1994 | ||
Welsh — often read as 'sea lord'. | 656#469 | Up 116 rank positions in five years | 1980 | ||
To walk right into the water. | 948#344 | Down 3 rank positions in five years | 1970 | ||
Hawaiian for 'sea'. | 3,768#93 | Steady | 2022 | ||
Scottish island name — say EYE-la. | 6,012#28 | Up 16 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Irish 'shining sea'. | 32#4,429 | Up 1,581 rank positions in five years | 1922 | ||
Latin 'of the sea'; every harbor keeps the word. | 488#602 | Up 102 rank positions in five years | 1994 | ||
Spanish: sea and sun together. | 423#667 | Up 311 rank positions in five years | 1996 | ||
A Danish daughter of Marina — of the sea. | 654#472 | Down 34 rank positions in five years | 2021 | ||
Hawaiian: 'sea and sky'. | 1,215#253 | Up 29 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
The reef-building sea jewel. | 100#1,931 | Down 314 rank positions in five years | 2004 | ||
The angler's trade, worn as a name. | 319#791 | Up 117 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Of the sea; also the headlands north of the Golden Gate. | 93#2,043 | Down 256 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
Irish 'sea warrior', by way of the surname. | 783#397 | Up 582 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
The whole blue expanse. | 375#720 | Up 75 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
The great inland sea — and Narnia's seafaring king. | 614#491 | Up 269 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
The one who works the waves. | 206#1,134 | Down 47 rank positions in five years | 2016 | ||
Latin 'of the sea', as in stella maris. | 48#3,280 | Down 605 rank positions in five years | 2018 | ||
'Ocean' in Hawaiian and Maori. | 35#4,140 | Down 875 rank positions in five years | 2017 |
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Sources & methodology
Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.
Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.