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Oakland vs Oaklee

American parents have registered 6,593 Oaklees since 1880, against 1,701 Oaklands. Oaklee is still ahead, with 640 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Oakland against Oaklee, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Oakland Oaklee

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 31 years in which either name was published, Oaklee for 25 years and Oakland for 6 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Oakland Oaklee
Total US births 1,7016,593
Most in one year 208802
Babies in 2025 208640
Estimated living today 1,7006,600
Median age today 44
Peak year 20252023
Best rank 1,244th boys445th girls
Rank in 2025 1,244th535th
First recorded 19191999
Girls / boys 292 / 1,4095,576 / 1,017

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Oakland Oaklee
England and Wales 22192

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Oakland and Oaklee.