Oaklyn
Oaklyn was given to 456 girls in 2025, #637 among girls’ names; 5,400 Americans have been recorded with it since 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,370 Americans named Oaklyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% 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 Oaklyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Oaklyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Oaklyn is “a unisex given name.”
A variant of Oakley with -lyn.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Oaklyn?
#637 among girls’ names, 2025
Oaklyn rose from #3,079 in 2015 to #637 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.03 to 0.28 per 1,000.
682 babies in 2018, the peak
Oaklyn peaked in 2018, when 682 babies were given it (630 girls, #494 among girls’ names). The 479 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 70% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 456 | #637 | 0.28 |
| 2024 | 506 | #597 | 0.31 |
| 2023 | 517 | #579 | 0.32 |
| 2022 | 592 | #528 | 0.36 |
| 2021 | 528 | #574 | 0.32 |
| 2020 | 523 | #562 | 0.32 |
| 2019 | 521 | #587 | 0.31 |
| 2018 | 630 | #494 | 0.37 |
| 2017 | 434 | #677 | 0.25 |
| 2016 | 162 | #1,430 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 55 | #3,079 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,981 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,786 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,111 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,975 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,099 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,817 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,286 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Oaklyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,400 Americans recorded as Oaklyn, 93% are girls and 7% boys. In 2025 it went to 456 girls and 23 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Oaklyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Oaklyn, and how old are they?
5,370 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,400 Americans ever recorded as Oaklyn. The median Oaklyn alive today is 5 years old; half are between 3 and 8.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 42 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,330 |
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.
Where are babies named Oaklyn born?
The states with the most babies named Oaklyn are Texas, Ohio and Kentucky, with 22% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Kentucky is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 36 | #836 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 31 | #369 | 1.4× |
| Kentucky | 29 | #159 | 2.2× |
| North Carolina | 28 | #400 | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 25 | #439 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 21 | #790 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 20 | #557 | 1.3× |
| New York | 17 | #939 | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 15 | #655 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 14 | #583 | 1.1× |
Where Oaklyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Oaklyn is most over-represented in Iowa: since 2006 it was given 2.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Oaklyn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 17,263 babies since 1880, Oaklyn is the second most given (31% of them). In 2025 it was given to 479 of their 2,452 babies (20%), again the second 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 Oaklyn
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 Oaklyn and names like it
- Compare Oaklyn and OaklynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sOaklyn peaked in 2018.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Oaklyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Oaklyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Oaklyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with OMost given first.