Oakland

Where Oakland comes from

By proprialization of oak + -land, as likewise with Oakwood from oakwood.
— Wiktionary's entry for Oakland
  • From a surname
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1919
    First appearance
    #4,168 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2025
    Peak, #1,244
    160 babies named Oakland — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Oakland hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.