Oaklee
Masculine · “oak clearing”
Oaklee is given to both — 1,017 boys and 5,576 girls since 1880. See Oaklee as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Oaklee joins oak to a -lee ending, and the Old English ac and leah together made Oakley — the oak clearing, a real place name.
How old is the name Oaklee?
Oaklee first appears in US birth records in 2009 — 16 years ago. The typical Oaklee is a kid of about 5 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,000 people named Oaklee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Oaklee most popular?
Oaklee peaked in 2022, reaching #1504 nationally. Today it ranks #2006, 502 places below that high. See the whole 2022 chart.
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Where it comes from
From ac leah to Oaklee
The story of Oaklee
Several English villages are called Oakley and the surname comes from them. Annie Oakley, the sharpshooter, made it famous in America. The Oaklee respelling appears in the American registers from the 2010s for both sexes, more often feminine, and masculine Oaklee is in current use.
Meaning
oak clearing
From the Old English ac, 'oak', and leah, 'wood' or 'clearing'. Oakley is a genuine English place name and surname of that construction. The -lee respelling is modern American with no meaning of its own. The elements are ordinary and undisputed.
How the name formed
- ac leah
- Oakley
- Oaklee
Related forms: Oakley · Oakleigh
Pronouncing Oaklee
OHK-lee
Two syllables, stress on the first. All the spellings of the sound are said identically.
Nicknames for Oaklee
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 2009
- Most boys named
- 2022120 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1504reached in 2022
- Change vs 2024
- −7.4%75 in 2025, from 81
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Oaklee in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Oakley in English — spelling variant
- Oakleigh in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Tennessee, Ohio, Texas.
Oaklees among us
people named Oaklee are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 22,774 born in 2025 was named Oaklee
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Veronica test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Oaklee's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Veronica climbed just as high around 1985, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Veronica's path sketches the road Oaklee is walking now.
Oaklee sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Oaklee is headed
Oaklee should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Oaklee beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Oaklee in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The oak-clearing meaning is concrete and belongs to real English places.
- Oak and Lee are two short forms, both with real use.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- Oakley is the standard spelling of both the place and the surname.
- It reads as more feminine than masculine in America.
- At least three spellings of the sound are in circulation.
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Frequently asked
- How many Oaklees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Oaklee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Oaklee in 2025?
- Oaklee ranks #2006 among US boy names in 2025, with 75 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Oaklee?
- About 1 in every 22,774 US boys born in 2025 was named Oaklee — 75 in all.
- Will my child share the name Oaklee with classmates?
- Oaklee will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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