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Oaklee vs Oaklyn

American parents have registered 6,593 Oaklees since 1880, against 5,400 Oaklyns. Oaklee is still ahead, with 640 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Oaklee Oaklyn

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 27 years in which either name was published, Oaklee for 23 years and Oaklyn for 4 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Oaklee Oaklyn
Total US births 6,5935,400
Most in one year 802682
Babies in 2025 640479
Estimated living today 6,6005,400
Median age today 44
Peak year 20232018
Best rank 445th girls494th girls
Rank in 2025 535th637th
First recorded 19992006
Girls / boys 5,576 / 1,0175,027 / 373

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 Oaklyn
England and Wales 19293

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 Oaklyn.