Oakland
Oakland is given to both girls and boys: 48 girls and 160 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,282 among girls’ names and #1,248 among boys’, #2,152 among all names counting both); 1,701 Americans have been recorded with it since 1919 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,670 Americans named Oakland and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 8.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Oakland by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Oakland mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Oakland is “a unisex given name transferred from the surname.”
By proprialization of oak + -land, as likewise with Oakwood from oakwood.
/ˈoʊklənd/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Oakland?
#1,248 among boys’ names, 2025
Oakland rose from #3,205 in 2015 to #1,248 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 18.8 to 93.7 per million.
208 babies in 2025, the peak
Oakland peaked in 2025, when 208 babies were given it (160 boys, #1,248 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 151 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48 | #3,282 | 160 | #1,248 |
| 2024 | 43 | #3,629 | 151 | #1,301 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,814 | 149 | #1,291 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,551 | 158 | #1,247 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,918 | 151 | #1,265 |
| 2020 | 28 | #4,726 | 114 | #1,495 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,743 | 86 | #1,801 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,202 | 101 | #1,621 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,435 | 65 | #2,125 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,586 | 47 | #2,649 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #18,422 | 36 | #3,205 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,689 | 29 | #3,666 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,031 | 26 | #3,932 |
| 2012 | under 5 | 19 | #4,987 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 12 | #6,883 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 9 | #8,596 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 7 | #10,660 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 8 | #9,605 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 6 | #11,945 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 13 | #6,357 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 7 | #9,846 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 7 | #9,658 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 8 | #8,401 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 7 | #9,116 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 6 | #10,172 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 5 | #11,657 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 5 | #10,346 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 5 | #4,706 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 7 | #3,770 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 5 | #4,611 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Oakland a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,701 Americans recorded as Oakland, 17% are girls and 83% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Oakland: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Oakland, and how old are they?
1,670 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,701 Americans ever recorded as Oakland. The median Oakland alive today is 5 years old; half are between 3 and 8.
The 2020 Census counted 625 people named Oakland (116 women and girls, 509 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 605 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 117 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,560 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,789 babies since 1880, Oakland is the most given (95% of them). In 2025 it was given to 208 of their 219 babies (95%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Oakland
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Oakland and names like it
- Compare Oakland and OaklyndBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sOakland peaked in 2025.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Oakland since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Oakland: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Oakland.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Oakland alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with OMost given first.