Oaklei
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- OHK-lee
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #8,360 for girls
Oaklei is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “oak clearing”. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).
What does Oaklei mean?
English: spelling of Oakley, an English place name and surname
“oak clearing”
Oakley comes from Old English ac, 'oak', and leah, 'clearing', a common English place name.
Is Oaklei a girl's or a boy's name?
Oaklei is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Oaklei in the UK?
No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2023, with 6 boys.
Oaklei in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #3,279 |
| 2022 | 1 | #6,413 |
| 2021 | 1 | #6,364 |
How popular is Oaklei in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,360among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12about 1 in 130,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Oaklei, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 18 girls. It first appears in the records in 2014.
Half of all the girls named Oaklei in the US since 1880 were born between 2018 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 2,993 girls in the US were given Oaklei or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #107, up from #8,360 for this spelling alone.
Oaklei in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,360 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,941 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,404 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,674 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,459 |
| 2020 | 11 | #8,948 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,467 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 9 | #10,949 |
Names like Oaklei
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kai Koa Lawi Makai Ozzy Huxley Nikolai Keanu Loxley Kolby Kofi Sonny
Other spellings of Oaklei
More English names
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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, “Oaklei: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/oaklei, updated 20 October 2026.