Oakes
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- OHKS
- Origin
- English
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,742 for boys
- US rank, 2025
- #2,421 for boys
- Style
- New arrival
Oakes is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “oak trees”. In 2025 it ranked 2,742nd for boys in the UK (8 babies) and 2,421st for boys in the US (56 babies).
What does Oakes mean?
English: English surname
“oak trees”
An English surname for someone who lived by oak trees, from Old English ac, 'oak'.
Is Oakes a girl's or a boy's name?
Oakes is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 boys in the UK and 56 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Oakes in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,742nd among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 37,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 733% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 8 boys in the UK were named Oakes, making it the 2,742nd most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2024, with 9 boys.
In 2025, 12 boys in the UK were given Oakes or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,763, up from #2,742 for this spelling alone.
- Oakes 8
- Oax 4
Among boys in 2025, it was 2,658th in England and Wales.
Oakes in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #2,742 |
| 2024 | 9 | #2,515 |
| 2023 | 5 | #3,712 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,017 |
How popular is Oakes in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,421st among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 56 about 1 in 30,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 215% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 56 boys in the US were named Oakes, making it the 2,421st most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,497th. It first appears in the records in 2012.
It has been given to more boys each year for the last 5 years. 2025 had the most boys named Oakes of any year since it first appeared, in 2012.
Half of all the boys named Oakes in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 99 boys in the US were given Oakes or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,493, up from #2,421 for this spelling alone.
- Oakes 56
- Oaks 43
Oakes in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | #2,421 |
| 2024 | 42 | #2,957 |
| 2023 | 28 | #3,880 |
| 2022 | 23 | #4,438 |
| 2021 | 22 | #4,490 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,497 |
| 2019 | 17 | #5,336 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,341 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,522 |
| 2016 | 16 | #5,551 |
| 2015 | 12 | #6,671 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,303 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,113 |
| 2012 | 6 | #10,763 |
Names like Oakes
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Oakley, Albie, Atlas, Koa, Rhodes, Archer, Hudson, Myles, Reign, Cove, Jax, Ozzy
Other spellings of Oakes
Oax, Oaks
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie, Hazel, Carter
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Oakes: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/oakes, updated 20 October 2026.