Oakleigh

What Oakleigh means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Oakleigh yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #666 vs #2,006 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Oakleigh?

US: Rising: up from #1793 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #4736 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2023, when 598 girls got the name (#507 that year). First in the US records in 2005.

How common

• About 1 in 3,800 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 18,092 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 4,473 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in WV (1.97 per 1,000 girls), MS (1.8 per 1,000 girls), AL (1.36 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Oakleigh is #666 in the US and #2006 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Oakleigh were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Oaklei12 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Oakleigh

Girls

• Charlie#133Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #133 vs #747 in 2025
• Nora#20Form of Eleanor, possibly meaning “other”^*
• Elsie#123Diminutive of Alison, meaning “of noble kind”^*
• Ada#219“noble”^*
• Charlotte#2Form of Charles, meaning “free man”^*
• Lena#279“the Large River”^*

For a brother

• Ace#164Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #419 in 2015, #164 in 2025
• Oliver#3Editor’s note Up from #19 in 2015 to #3 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 110 US boys in the 2025 records
• Charlie#145Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #22 vs #145 in 2025
• Waylon#56Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #222 in 2015, #56 in 2025
• Jameson#137Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #137 vs #1,093 in 2025
• Elliot#151Variant of Elliott, meaning “my God is Yahweh”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Oakleigh’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.