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The first name 
Ocean

Ocean is a first name for all genders.

Ocean – well-known but still special!

Few children have been named Ocean in recent years. Although it is used several times each year, only approximately 7 out of 100,000 children are currently called Ocean. Whether you’re a boy or a girl, you will most likely be the only person with the special name Ocean at your school. In our SmartGenius ranking, Ocean is number *** on the list of most common first names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Ocean.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Ocean

Ocean has 5 letters 
and begins with an O

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter O is quite rare as an initial letter for first names: only 1.5% of all common given names in the US begin with an O, which means that this initial occurs less than half as often as the other letters on average. Nevertheless, O is by no means the rarest initial. While A, J and K are the most common first letters of given names, U, X and Q are the least common initials of first names.

With five letters, the name Ocean is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Now do the math: Since 1.5% of all first names begin with an O, this initial occurs less than half as often as the other letters on average.

Other names with 
O, c, e, a and n

If you take all the letters in the name Ocean – O, c, e, a and n – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Naeco or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Ocean

If your name is Ocean and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Ocean

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Ocean, you can simply say:

Orange

Cat

Elephant

Apple

Nut

This is how the name Ocean is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Ocean in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Ocean

Ocean

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Ocean

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Ocean is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

O
C
E
A
N

Have you ever waved the name Ocean

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

O
C
E
A
N

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Ocean sounds like this: