Meaning not yet researched.
Oakland: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 160 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,247 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,247 in 2022; #1,248 in 2025. About 77% of babies named Oakland in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,248 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #1,247.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Oakland: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 160 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,247 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 160 (2025).
In 2025, 160 US boys were named Oakland, making it the 1,248th most common boys’ name of the year, up 53 places from #1,301 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 151 boys named Oakland in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,247, reached in 2022. The most boys given the name in a single year was 160, in 2025. For comparison, it was #3,206 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 48 US girls were named Oakland, making it the 3,282nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 347 places from #3,629 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 43 girls named Oakland in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,282, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 48. For comparison, it was #18,428 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Oakland in 30 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1919 with 5 babies. In all, 1,701 US babies have been given the name, 17% of them girls and 83% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,111 babies named Oakland.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,182 US boys were named Oakland; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 160. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,675 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Oakland ranked highest in North Carolina in 2025, at #613 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Oaklynd are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Oaklynd (88).
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 Oakland in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 37 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 16 | #613 | — |
| South Carolina | 7 | #653 | — |
| Kentucky | 6 | #689 | — |
| Tennessee | 10 | #708 | — |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #773 | — |
| Utah | 5 | #780 | — |
| Indiana | 7 | #823 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,005 | — |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,060 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,071 | — |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,185 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,432 | — |
| New York | 6 | #1,696 | — |
| Texas | 8 | #2,032 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48 | #3,282 | 160 | #1,248 |
| 2024 | 43 | #3,629 | 151 | #1,301 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,816 | 149 | #1,291 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,554 | 158 | #1,247 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,920 | 151 | #1,265 |
| 2020 | 28 | #4,728 | 114 | #1,495 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,747 | 86 | #1,801 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,207 | 101 | #1,621 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,440 | 65 | #2,126 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,591 | 47 | #2,650 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,428 | 36 | #3,206 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,695 | 29 | #3,668 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,036 | 26 | #3,934 |
| 2012 | — | — | 19 | #4,992 |
| 2011 | — | — | 12 | #6,890 |
| 2010 | — | — | 9 | #8,602 |
| 2009 | — | — | 7 | #10,665 |
| 2008 | — | — | 8 | #9,612 |
| 2007 | — | — | 6 | #11,951 |
| 2006 | — | — | 13 | #6,362 |
| 2005 | — | — | 7 | #9,853 |
| 2004 | — | — | 7 | #9,664 |
| 2003 | — | — | 8 | #8,408 |
| 2002 | — | — | 7 | #9,123 |
| 2001 | — | — | 6 | #10,180 |
| 2000 | — | — | 5 | #11,665 |
| 1997 | — | — | 5 | #10,352 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,709 |
| 1922 | — | — | 7 | #3,772 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,613 |
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).