Oaklan is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Oaklynn, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Oaklan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 25 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,082 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,082 in 2024; #4,219 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Oaklan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,219 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #3,082.
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Oaklan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 25 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,082 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 40 (2024).
In 2025, 25 US boys were named Oaklan, making it the 4,219th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,137 places from #3,082 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 40 boys named Oaklan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,082, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 40. For comparison, it was #10,312 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Oaklan in 13 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2012 with 5 babies. In all, 299 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 195 babies named Oaklan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 279 US boys were named Oaklan; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 40. In 2025 that was about 1 in 68,323 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Oaklynn (11,863 babies since 1880), Oaklyn (5,400 babies since 1880) and Oaklen (783 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Oaklan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).