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Oaks: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 43 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,864 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,864 in 2024; #2,920 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Oaks in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,920 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #2,864.
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Oaks: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 43 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,864 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 45 (2024).
In 2025, 43 US boys were named Oaks, making it the 2,920th most common boys’ name of the year, down 56 places from #2,864 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 45 boys named Oaks in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,864, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 45. For comparison, it was #7,887 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Oaks in 12 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2013 with 11 babies. In all, 280 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 206 babies named Oaks.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 259 US boys were named Oaks; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 45. In 2025 that was about 1 in 39,723 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Oaks ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #431 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.
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US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 11 | #431 | — |
| Texas | 5 | #2,851 | — |
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).