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Help[Opinions] Ocean
i've been warming up to it (hahah get it like how..the ocean is warming.. :/ ) lately. especially for a boy, but i like how it's gender neutral and could be used for any.
besides liking it for obvious reason of well, the ocean and all its imagery, i also love the poet Ocean Vuong. and my gf also grew up and has an attachment to Ocean City, which i'm excited to see one day.
wdyt? any middle names that would go with it?
besides liking it for obvious reason of well, the ocean and all its imagery, i also love the poet Ocean Vuong. and my gf also grew up and has an attachment to Ocean City, which i'm excited to see one day.
wdyt? any middle names that would go with it?
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I love Ocean for a boy or a girl, I only slightly prefer it for a girl. It is a very unisex name and I would consider using it except that my husband has an aunt named Ocean.
Lots of middle names go well with it just don't use another nature name in the middle, choosing a good mn for it will depend on the surname.
Funny story but my husband's aunt Ocean was born to hippie parents and her full fn is Ocean Baby and she has three middle names including a double word mn. Her full name is Ocean Baby Cherry Blossom Marisa Elizabeth V. She hated the Baby part of her name sooo much hence why she only ever goes by Ocean or Ocie. Also Cherry Blossom is too much but at least it is better then adding Baby onto Ocean. A much better combo would have been Ocean Marisa Elizabeth. So basically just don't do something crazy for your son like my aunt-in-laws name and you are good.
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Lots of middle names go well with it just don't use another nature name in the middle, choosing a good mn for it will depend on the surname.
Funny story but my husband's aunt Ocean was born to hippie parents and her full fn is Ocean Baby and she has three middle names including a double word mn. Her full name is Ocean Baby Cherry Blossom Marisa Elizabeth V. She hated the Baby part of her name sooo much hence why she only ever goes by Ocean or Ocie. Also Cherry Blossom is too much but at least it is better then adding Baby onto Ocean. A much better combo would have been Ocean Marisa Elizabeth. So basically just don't do something crazy for your son like my aunt-in-laws name and you are good.
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This message was edited 11/15/2017, 1:02 AM
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Baby isn't a mn it is a double fn, bit confusing with so much in there. Yeah Ocean Marisa Elizabeth is a bit repetitive but it sounds nice and is much better than Ocean Baby Cherry Blossom Marisa Elizabeth. Ocean Elizabeth is kind of nice but Elizabeth is a bit fillerish.
Ocean Baby "Ocie or Ocean" was born to Ed and his first wife, when Ed remarried to Dorothy she already had three children from her first marriage - boys named Christopher "Chris", John, and Nicholas "Nick" all without middle names - Dorothy had one daughter with Ed named Catherine Opal nn Katie which is a double fn like her sister Ocean Baby. Catherine Opal unlike her sister only has one mn rather than 3 but I don't know what it is.
Ed and Dorothy were way less crazy about naming Katie than Ed was with his first wife when they named Ocie. Dorothy's first husband David was definitely not a hippie type at all, he was a very serious English born man who was a research scientist. Dorothy was also born in England but they immigrated to the US when David became a post-doc at Harvard. They later moved to Vancouver when David became a professor at the University of British Columbia. David was too dedicated to his work and Dorothy finally divorced him. Their son's names are super bland/ normal and they didn't even get mn's, together with their step sister and half sister it's such an odd sibset.
Ocean Baby "Ocie or Ocean" was born to Ed and his first wife, when Ed remarried to Dorothy she already had three children from her first marriage - boys named Christopher "Chris", John, and Nicholas "Nick" all without middle names - Dorothy had one daughter with Ed named Catherine Opal nn Katie which is a double fn like her sister Ocean Baby. Catherine Opal unlike her sister only has one mn rather than 3 but I don't know what it is.
Ed and Dorothy were way less crazy about naming Katie than Ed was with his first wife when they named Ocie. Dorothy's first husband David was definitely not a hippie type at all, he was a very serious English born man who was a research scientist. Dorothy was also born in England but they immigrated to the US when David became a post-doc at Harvard. They later moved to Vancouver when David became a professor at the University of British Columbia. David was too dedicated to his work and Dorothy finally divorced him. Their son's names are super bland/ normal and they didn't even get mn's, together with their step sister and half sister it's such an odd sibset.
This message was edited 11/15/2017, 6:16 AM
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I really like Ocean because of Ocean Vuong (so glad you know about him!).
Here are some combos:
Ocean Abel
Ocean Ambrose
Ocean Arthur
Ocean Balthasar / Balthazar
Ocean Barnabas / Barnaby
Ocean Bartholomew
Ocean Benedict
Ocean Cecil
Ocean Clarence
Ocean Claude
Ocean Clement
Ocean Conrad
Ocean Cornelius
Ocean Cosmo
Ocean Cyril
Ocean Cyrus
Ocean Edgar
Ocean Edward
Ocean Elliot
Ocean Ezra
Ocean Felix
Ocean Ferdinand
Ocean Francis
Ocean Frederick
Ocean Gerard
Ocean Gregory
Ocean Henry
Here are some combos:
Ocean Abel
Ocean Ambrose
Ocean Arthur
Ocean Balthasar / Balthazar
Ocean Barnabas / Barnaby
Ocean Bartholomew
Ocean Benedict
Ocean Cecil
Ocean Clarence
Ocean Claude
Ocean Clement
Ocean Conrad
Ocean Cornelius
Ocean Cosmo
Ocean Cyril
Ocean Cyrus
Ocean Edgar
Ocean Edward
Ocean Elliot
Ocean Ezra
Ocean Felix
Ocean Ferdinand
Ocean Francis
Ocean Frederick
Ocean Gerard
Ocean Gregory
Ocean Henry
This message was edited 11/14/2017, 9:01 PM
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yesss it's nice someone else here knows Ocean Vuong.
from all you listed (which is a lot! thank you), i'm a fan of:
Ocean Claude (sounds especially artsy bc of Claude Monet, who paints oceans beautifully)
Ocean Cosmo - i would do Ocean Cosmos though to be full on hippie
Ocean Cyril
Ocean Edward - Eduard is one of my faves
Ocean Elliot
Ocean Isidore - i'm iffy about Isidore, since it's a little too Christian for me, but it sounds lovely with Ocean
Ocean Isaac
Ocean Lionel
Ocean Marcel (sounds so romantic)
Ocean Percival
Ocean Ulysses - this is the most DRAMATIC name
Ocean Virgil
and Ocean Waldo sounds like an answer to "where's Waldo" :(.
from all you listed (which is a lot! thank you), i'm a fan of:
Ocean Claude (sounds especially artsy bc of Claude Monet, who paints oceans beautifully)
Ocean Cosmo - i would do Ocean Cosmos though to be full on hippie
Ocean Cyril
Ocean Edward - Eduard is one of my faves
Ocean Elliot
Ocean Isidore - i'm iffy about Isidore, since it's a little too Christian for me, but it sounds lovely with Ocean
Ocean Isaac
Ocean Lionel
Ocean Marcel (sounds so romantic)
Ocean Percival
Ocean Ulysses - this is the most DRAMATIC name
Ocean Virgil
and Ocean Waldo sounds like an answer to "where's Waldo" :(.
This message was edited 11/15/2017, 1:42 AM
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Other than Ocean Mountain those hippie combos are kind of nice.
My husband has a step aunt/ first cousin once removed whose hippie parents gave her the fn Ocean Baby. She just goes by Ocean since Ocean Baby is dumb. I'd much rather be Ocean Song than Ocean Baby but really Ocean is enough, more than that is too much.
P.S. if you are wondering my husband's parents are step cousins which can make his family get a bit difficult to explain. Also add in that his father was originally adopted makes explaining their relationships to one another difficult to do.
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My husband has a step aunt/ first cousin once removed whose hippie parents gave her the fn Ocean Baby. She just goes by Ocean since Ocean Baby is dumb. I'd much rather be Ocean Song than Ocean Baby but really Ocean is enough, more than that is too much.
P.S. if you are wondering my husband's parents are step cousins which can make his family get a bit difficult to explain. Also add in that his father was originally adopted makes explaining their relationships to one another difficult to do.
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This message was edited 11/15/2017, 1:21 AM
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I really like Ocean and most nature-y names. It isn’t gendered, has a good sound, and as you said, beautiful imagery.
Here are some combos that may work (for any gender, but some are a bit more masculine or feminine)?
Ocean Pax
Ocean Cassander
Ocean Maria
Ocean Lysander
Ocean Marisol
Ocean Iris
Ocean Isolde
Here are some combos that may work (for any gender, but some are a bit more masculine or feminine)?
Ocean Pax
Ocean Cassander
Ocean Maria
Ocean Lysander
Ocean Marisol
Ocean Iris
Ocean Isolde
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Yeah, that's what I meant. (-:
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Personally, I am not a huge fan of it, but it's definitely not the worst name for a child. It does go better with a boy.
For middle names I would do: Ocean Lee, Ocean Lucas, Ocean Baron, Ocean James.
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For middle names I would do: Ocean Lee, Ocean Lucas, Ocean Baron, Ocean James.
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