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Oakleigh

#668 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Oakley

Oakleigh has been given to 4,138 babies in the U.S. since 2005. In 2025 it ranked #668 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 598 recorded.

Babies named Oakleigh, 2025

1 in 7,840

Oakleigh over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Oakleigh: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Oakley

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Oakleigh means

Oakleigh is a variant of Oakley.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Oakleigh → Oakley. The family’s meaning is “oak clearing”, recorded in the naming reference for Oakley.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Oakley.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,121 girls were recorded with the name Oakleigh between 2005 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 598 in 2023; its best national rank was #507 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #858 in 2020 to #668 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,811 in 2015 to #668 in 2025.

In the United States, 17 boys were recorded with the name Oakleigh between 2018 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2021; its best national rank was #11,745 in 2021.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Oakleigh?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 7,840
423 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 3,800
0.03% of girls
Rank, 2025
#668
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
5,434 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Oakleigh sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 1001%
School of 5006%

Put another way: gather 5,434 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Oakleigh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Oakleighs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Oakleigh was born before 2022 — so the typical Oakleigh is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
70.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,121
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 70.3% of all recorded uses (2,899).

Is Oakleigh rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−39
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+190
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,143
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.65×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
70.7%
Peak was 2023 (598)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#507
2023

Spellings of Oakleigh

Oakleigh is not the most common spelling — Kayleigh is, with 23.6% against Oakleigh's 2.8%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Oakleigh is used

Across 2016–2025, Oakleigh was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 870 girls, against 1 in 3,713 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in 50,000).

2115 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 870
  2. 2Alabama1 in 962
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 980
  4. 4West Virginia1 in 1,124
  5. 5Kentucky1 in 1,266
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 1,316
  7. 7Oklahoma1 in 1,695
  8. 8Indiana1 in 1,786

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Oakleigh is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 82% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Oakleigh around the world

Where Oakleigh ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #2,006
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2015–2025
    #632
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2014–2024
    #1,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2004–2013
    #536
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Oakleigh by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#668
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 190
Best rank ever
#507
2023
Peak year
2023
598 that year
First recorded
2005
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,121
Count in 2025
423

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,745
2021
Peak year
2021
6 that year
First recorded
2018
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
17
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Oakleigh

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

HadleighBryleighKarleighBayleighHarleighHayleighRayleighMarleighCarleighKaileighOaklynBaileighOaklynnOakleeRaeleighCayleighCalleighKenleighKinleighKynleighBrynleighHaileighRileighAdaleigh

Names with a curve like Oakleigh

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Oakleigh, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

SevynIylaJaylaniIndieFreyjaNovahElowynHaisleyOakleeMarigoldMurphyAlaiya

Sibling names for Oakleigh

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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