Primarily a girl's name · Unisex — 56% girls / 44% boys
Origin: EnglishOakley is a unisex given name of English origin that is a transferred use of an English place name and surname meaning “oak clearing”.
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Oakley yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Oakley has grown 419% in ten years, the second-largest gain in this batch, and its history is the most broken of any name here: recorded in 1913, then nothing at all across the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and 1970s — five straight decades missing — before it returned. Current figures are 1,894 births at rank 157, an all-time high on count. Just 24,104 births in total, the smallest cumulative figure in this batch by a distance. The single listed namesake is the rapper Central Cee, born 1998, whose given name is Oakley Caesar-Su, which almost certainly postdates the American rise rather than causing it. Annie Oakley, the obvious historical association, is absent from the file entirely — a gap worth knowing about before treating these lists as complete.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1913 | 7 | #2,741 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,500 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,472 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,681 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,826 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,581 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,826 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,891 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,322 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,244 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,853 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,928 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,276 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,285 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,522 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,608 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,387 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,226 |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,091 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,615 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,160 |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,628 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,246 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,151 |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,390 |
| 2004 | 41 | #3,607 |
| 2005 | 41 | #3,632 |
| 2006 | 49 | #3,357 |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,957 |
| 2008 | 75 | #2,528 |
| 2009 | 92 | #2,178 |
| 2010 | 118 | #1,758 |
| 2011 | 157 | #1,445 |
| 2012 | 190 | #1,267 |
| 2013 | 274 | #928 |
| 2014 | 365 | #767 |
| 2015 | 471 | #614 |
| 2016 | 535 | #581 |
| 2017 | 658 | #475 |
| 2018 | 796 | #389 |
| 2019 | 908 | #349 |
| 2020 | 1,128 | #284 |
| 2021 | 1,538 | #193 |
| 2022 | 1,844 | #157 |
| 2023 | 1,882 | #153 |
| 2024 | 1,894 | #157 |
