Oakley — #157 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Oakley

The Social Security Administration has registered 13,419 babies named Oakley between 1913 and 2024, spanning 112 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Oakley currently holds the #157 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 1,894 babies received it in a single year. Oakley is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 10,685 additional births since 1884.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Oakley performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 8,286 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Oakley shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Utah, which accounts for 1,443 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Oakley in 48 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Oakley 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 13,419 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.