Oakland
- #3,249 for girls in 2025, 48 births
- #1,244 for boys in 2025, 160 births
- Given to boys 82.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 160 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,409since 1919
Oakland over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it. Not on the chart: 5 boys in 1919, 7 boys in 1922, 5 boys in 1923 (see the data table).
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,249 | 48 | #1,244 | 160 |
| 2024 | #3,575 | 43 | #1,295 | 151 |
| 2023 | #3,763 | 40 | #1,288 | 149 |
| 2022 | #4,472 | 31 | #1,245 | 158 |
| 2021 | #3,883 | 38 | #1,262 | 151 |
| 2020 | #4,648 | 28 | #1,489 | 114 |
| 2019 | #5,612 | 22 | #1,790 | 86 |
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 | #1,617 | 101 |
| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 | #2,109 | 65 |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 | #2,626 | 47 |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #3,149 | 36 |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 | #3,617 | 29 |
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 | #3,864 | 26 |
| 2012 | — | #4,862 | 19 | |
| 2011 | — | #6,578 | 12 | |
| 2010 | — | #8,139 | 9 | |
| 2009 | — | #9,864 | 7 | |
| 2008 | — | #9,019 | 8 | |
| 2007 | — | #10,921 | 6 | |
| 2006 | — | #6,094 | 13 | |
| 2005 | — | #9,115 | 7 | |
| 2004 | — | #8,927 | 7 | |
| 2003 | — | #7,831 | 8 | |
| 2002 | — | #8,456 | 7 | |
| 2001 | — | #9,243 | 6 | |
| 2000 | — | #10,349 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Oakland! It came in at #4,168, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1919–1921, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Oakland is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- North Carolina#591 · 1 in 3,217
- South Carolina#608 · 1 in 3,028
- Kentucky#625 · 1 in 3,423
- Tennessee#672 · 1 in 3,677
- Oklahoma#698 · 1 in 3,536
Best ever in a state: #395 in Kentucky, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | #591 | 16 | 1 in 3,217 |
| South Carolina | #608 | 7 | 1 in 3,028 |
| Kentucky | #625 | 6 | 1 in 3,423 |
| Tennessee | #672 | 10 | 1 in 3,677 |
| Oklahoma | #698 | 5 | 1 in 3,536 |
| Utah | #703 | 5 | 1 in 3,933 |
| Indiana | #773 | 7 | 1 in 4,523 |
| Arizona | #927 | 5 | 1 in 6,545 |
| Virginia | #971 | 6 | 1 in 6,209 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,004 | 7 | 1 in 7,466 |
| Georgia | #1,096 | 7 | 1 in 7,174 |
| Illinois | #1,280 | 5 | 1 in 9,910 |
| New York | #1,576 | 6 | 1 in 14,070 |
| Texas | #1,908 | 8 | 1 in 21,881 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Oakland
- 245 spots since 2020 (#1,489 → #1,244)
- Debuted 1919
- Peaked 2025 at #1,244 (160 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,675 boys born in 2025 were named Oakland (0.01%)
- 62.7% of all boys named Oakland (883) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1910s | 5 | #4,168 (1919) | #4,168 |
| 1920s | 12 | #3,532 (1922) | #3,886 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 5 | #9,265 (1997) | #9,265 |
| 2000s | 74 | #6,094 (2006) | #8,982 |
| 2010s | 430 | #1,617 (2018) | #3,835 |
| 2020s | 883 | #1,244 (2025) | #1,304 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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