THE MEANING & THE CONTEXT
The story behind Dagat
Dagat names the sea and its water in the dictionary. The entry also includes verb formations concerning seasickness and fishing, but those are not extra meanings being assigned to a child.
A word, offered as inspiration. The dictionary supports its meaning; it does not establish use as a given name, a gender, or a popularity ranking.
Follow the sources
- John U. Wolff, A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan (1972) — dágat (opens in a new tab)
Cebuano lexical sense only; not evidence of given-name usage, gender, or frequency.