Oaklei is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Oakley, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Oaklei: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #6,605 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #6,605 in 2023; #8,730 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Oaklei in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,730 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #6,605.
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Oaklei: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 girls in 2025. Peak: #6,605 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 18 (2023).
In 2025, 12 US girls were named Oaklei, making it the 8,730th most common girls’ name of the year, up 678 places from #9,408 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 11 girls named Oaklei in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #6,605, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 18. For comparison, it was #12,714 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Oaklei in 11 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2014 with 9 babies. In all, 117 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 74 babies named Oaklei.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 100 US girls were named Oaklei; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 18. In 2025 that was about 1 in 133,939 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Oakley (26,745 babies since 1880), Oaklee (6,593 babies since 1880), Oakleigh (4,138 babies since 1880) and Oaklie (753 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 Oaklei 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).