Oakland
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 70 babies a year in the US.
Oakland by the numbers
In 2025, 7 babies in England and Wales were named Oakland. In the US, 70 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its best year in America so far is the most recent one on record, which means it was still climbing when the records end.
What we can tell you about Oakland
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Oakland. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Oaklanoak tree clearing; a variant of oakland or oakley10 in England and Wales (2025)
- Oaklynoak tree clearing; a modern respelling of Oakley472 in the US (2017)
- Oaklenoak tree clearing; a variant of Oakley21 in England and Wales (2025)
- Oaklinfrom the oak tree land; variant of Oakley12 in the US (2017)
- Orlandpointed land; a form of Orlando8 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Oakland
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