Oaklen
#2,277 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Oaklen has been given to 783 babies in the U.S. since 2011. In 2025 it ranked #2,277 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 105 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 93% boys, 7% girls all-time.
Babies named Oaklen, 2025
1 in 53,500
Oaklen over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Oaklen over time
In 2025, Oaklen went to 9% girls and 91% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Oaklen?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 53,500
- 62 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 27,500
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,277
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 37,064 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Oaklen sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 37,064 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Oaklen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Oaklens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Oaklen was born before 2022 — so the typical Oaklen is around 3 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 67.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 725
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 67.9% of all recorded uses (492).
Is Oaklen 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
- −572
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +327
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,565
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 3.10×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 59.0%
- Peak was 2023 (105)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 52.2% average annual change
Spellings of Oaklen
Oaklen is not the most common spelling — Allen is, with 59.2% against Oaklen's 0.16%.
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 Oaklen is used
Across 2016–2025, Oaklen was most concentrated in Tennessee — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 34,272 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.
Oaklen around the world
Where Oaklen 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 & Wales2011–2025#1,307in 2025
- Scotland2022–2022#703in 2022
- Northern Ireland2022–2022#414in 2022
- Canada2014–2024#857in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Oaklen by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Oaklen
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Oaklen
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.