Oakland — #1295 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Oakland

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,247 babies named Oakland between 1919 and 2024, spanning 106 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Oakland currently holds the #1295 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 158 babies received it in a single year. Oakland is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 244 additional births since 2013.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Oakland performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 721 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Oakland shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 73 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Tennessee. In total, SSA state-level files list Oakland in 18 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Oakland in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,247 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.