The pair who drowned in the water off Far Rockaway have been identified as a Long Island couple who took a late-night swim during a pal’s birthday celebration, police said Wednesday.

Cops recovered the bodies of 25-year-old Umarie Chamble and 28-year-old Keylon Ramsay around 10:20 p.m. Tuesday near the shoreline in the area of Beach 9th Street near Seagirt Boulevard.

The victims, who share an address just over two miles away on Norton Street in Inwood, allegedly had been drinking when they decided to go for a swim, police said. When they did not return, their friend called 911.

Chamble and Ramsay were rushed to St. John’s Episcopal Hospital, but could not be saved.

Police sources initially told The Post that one of the victims was teaching the other how to swim, which Chamble’s cousin Sharifa Martin later confirmed.

“She was trying to teach Keylon how to swim,” 33-year-old Martin said. “She was a really fun, loving, nice girl.”

Martin said Chamble, who had just turned 25 last month, was a home health aide who was also attending York College, while Ramsay’s family said he was starting a moving company.

“He was so sweet,” Martin continued. “Always driving us where we needed to go. Taking care. He was a very nice young man.”

Ramsay’s father, Sheldon St. Hillaire, said that he’s “in shock” as he added it’s “shocking” that Ramsay even went in the water because “he has a phobia.”

St. Hillaire, 50, of Brooklyn said he spoke to his son just two hours before the fatal incident.

Ramsay’s cousin, Chanel Boothman, 22, said Ramsay was someone she “looked up” to.

“He was very driven. Always working,” Boothman said. “It’s hard to know he’s no longer here.”

Chamble’s father, Umar Chamble, 45, called his daughter “a beautiful young lady.”

“I’m very upset she went swimming at night,” the devastated dad said. “I know she was trying to teach him to swim but there’s a time and a place for that.”

Additional reporting by Natalie Musumeci