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Oaklen vs Oaklynn

American parents have registered 11,863 Oaklynns since 1880, against 783 Oaklens. Oaklynn is still ahead, with 1,973 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Oaklen against Oaklynn, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Oaklen Oaklynn

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

Oaklynn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 2008 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2011, when Oaklen had 5 and Oaklynn had 8.

Side by side

  Oaklen Oaklynn
Total US births 78311,863
Most in one year 1201,973
Babies in 2025 681,973
Estimated living today 78012,000
Median age today 33
Peak year 20232025
Best rank 1,640th boys153rd girls
Rank in 2025 2,258th153rd
First recorded 20112008
Girls / boys 58 / 72511,766 / 97

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 Oaklen Oaklynn
England and Wales 13136
Scotland 33

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: Oaklen and Oaklynn.