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Oaklee vs Oakleigh

American parents have registered 6,593 Oaklees since 1880, against 4,138 Oakleighs. Oaklee is still ahead, with 640 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Oaklee Oakleigh

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

Oaklee has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1999 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2023, when Oaklee had 795 and Oakleigh had 598.

Side by side

  Oaklee Oakleigh
Total US births 6,5934,138
Most in one year 802603
Babies in 2025 640423
Estimated living today 6,6004,100
Median age today 43
Peak year 20232023
Best rank 445th girls507th girls
Rank in 2025 535th666th
First recorded 19992005
Girls / boys 5,576 / 1,0174,121 / 17

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 Oaklee Oakleigh
England and Wales 192327

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: Oaklee and Oakleigh.