Oaks
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- OHKS
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #2,883 for boys
Oaks is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “oak trees”. In 2025 it ranked 2,883rd for boys in the US (43 babies).
What does Oaks mean?
English: English surname
“oak trees”
An English surname for someone who lived by oak trees, from Old English ac, 'oak'.
Is Oaks a girl's or a boy's name?
Oaks is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 43 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Oaks in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #2,883among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 43about 1 in 40,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 111% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 43 boys in the US were named Oaks, making it the 2,883rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,536th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 45 boys. It first appears in the records in 2013.
Half of all the boys named Oaks in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 99 boys in the US were given Oaks or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,493, up from #2,883 for this spelling alone.
- Oakes 56
- Oaks 43
Oaks in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #2,883 |
| 2024 | 45 | #2,835 |
| 2023 | 30 | #3,710 |
| 2022 | 33 | #3,462 |
| 2021 | 34 | #3,360 |
| 2020 | 21 | #4,536 |
| 2019 | 20 | #4,802 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,766 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,681 |
| 2016 | 6 | #10,739 |
| 2015 | 10 | #7,486 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,021 |
Names like Oaks
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Banks Rhodes Koa Hayes Saint Riggs Crew Truce Woods Coast Briggs Huxley
Other spellings of Oaks
More English names
Lily Evelyn Hudson Ivy Harper Grace Violet Willow Daisy Poppy Riley Oakley Mason Cooper Ruby Hallie
Sources
Figures from 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, “Oaks: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/oaks, updated 20 October 2026.