Oakley

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Oakley: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Oakley: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #34, and it stood at #577 in 2025.

5registrars recorded it
70times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#34highest recorded position
14groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Oakley's record

England and Wales registered 1,432 births with the name in 2024, its largest count from any one registrar. Names by yearly birth count

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3126
1998	#3142
2000	#3912
2001	#2466
2011	#2025
2012	#2215
2013	#2887
2014	#2203
2015	#3252
2016	#2233
2017	#2090
2018	#1343
2019	#1349
2020	#969
2021	#720
2022	#586
2023	#734
2024	#722

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #34 among boys in England and Wales, #110 among boys in Scotland, #177 among boys in Northern Ireland, #430 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3126 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #34 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #577 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Oakley appears in 6 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 9,838 births with the name.

Oakley across 6 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Oakley's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#853 (1996)	#34 (2024)	#34 (2024)	29 of 29	9,838 (1996–2024)	1,432 (2024)
England and Wales · Girls	#3126 (1996)	#586 (2022)	#722 (2024)	18 of 29	395 (1996–2024)	66 (2022)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#416 (2018)	#177 (2024)	#177 (2024)	7 of 7	43 (2018–2024)	12 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#506 (2019)	#343 (2023)	#577 (2025)	6 of 7	36 (2019–2025)	11 (2023)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#424 (2019)	#337 (2024)	#337 (2024)	3 of 6	10 (2019–2024)	4 (2024)
New Zealand · Boys	#71 (2020)	#71 (2020)	#75 (2023)	4 of 4	243 (2020–2023)	66 (2020)

Oakley by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Oakley in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	86	4 of 10	22
2000s	843	10 of 10	84
2010s	3,481	10 of 10	348
2020sbusiest	5,428	5 of 10	1,086

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 1,086 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2022 and 2023, when recorded births rose by 295, from 1,048 to 1,343.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Oakley appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #34 in England and Wales in 2024.

Oakley's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#722	52	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#34	1,432	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#734	49	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#39	1,343	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#586	66	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#56	1,048	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#720	52	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#67	908	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#969	35	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#82	697	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1349	23	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#98	639	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1343	24	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#120	500	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2090	13	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#142	409	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2233	12	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#134	445	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#3252	7	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#166	348	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2203	12	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#186	303	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2887	8	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#210	256	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2215	12	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#217	247	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2025	13	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#222	220	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#361	114	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#354	110	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#306	132	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#305	123	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#330	106	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#370	85	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#376	76	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#344	79	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#481	45	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2466	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#503	40	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#445	47	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#563	33	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3142	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#850	18	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#845	18	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3126	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#853	17	High	Verified
2023	New Zealand	male	#75	57	High	Verified
2022	New Zealand	male	#86	54	High	Verified
2021	New Zealand	male	#71	66	High	Verified
2020	New Zealand	male	#71	66	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#337	4	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#177	12	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#221	9	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#311	5	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#446	3	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#374	4	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#304	5	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#424	3	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#312	5	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	male	#416	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#577	5	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#430	8	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#343	11	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#779	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#741	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#506	6	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#260	14	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#110	48	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 5 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #34, first reached in 2024.

It held a top-100 place in 6 years, 6 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 1,432 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2018, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Oaklen · #414, 10y
Oakley-James · #1132, 10y
Obadiah · #2266, 16y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Tahlia · #32, 30y
Abbey · #37, 30y
Hallie · #31, 27y
Mabel · #37, 31y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Brianna · #35, 33y
Eloise · #35, 32y
Frankie · #33, 30y
Jorja · #35, 30y

Oakley was ranked #34 in England and Wales · Boys in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Oakley and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Oakley without appearing here.

Oakley moved ahead of

Yvonne Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2090 and #2090 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1343 and #5666.
Finlay Compare
In 2010 they stood at #2466 and #853 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #2025 and #5785.
Kai Compare
In 2010 they stood at #2466 and #1728 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #2025 and #5785.
Kari Compare
In 2010 they stood at #3912 and #2167 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #2025 and #5785.

Moved ahead of Oakley

Harper Compare
In 2010 they stood at #2466 and #3262 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #2025 and #858.
Blake Compare
In 2011 they stood at #2025 and #2893 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #2215 and #1893.
Fiadh Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1343 and #1436 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1349 and #1063.
Finlay Compare
In 2024 they stood at #430 and #520 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2025 that had become #577 and #372.

Moved the opposite way to Oakley

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Oakley went from #853 to #34 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Oakley went from #3126 to #722 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Oakley went from #853 to #34 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Oakley went from #3126 to #722 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.

Moved the same way as Oakley

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Oakley went from #3126 to #722 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Oakley went from #853 to #34 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Oakley went from #853 to #34 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Oakley went from #853 to #34 and Alfred from #218 to #81.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #34 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Oakley

Oakley at a glance

What stands out in Oakley's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Oakley across 6 official records

Oakley by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Oakley appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Oakley

Oakley and the names beside it

Oakley moved ahead of

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Oakley at a glance

What stands out in Oakley's record

Oakley across 6 official records

Oakley by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Oakley appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Oakley

Oakley and the names beside it

Oakley moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Oakley

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