Oakes

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⭐ Famous Oakes

Oakes Fegley

American actor

Choose Oakes and your child shares a first name with Oakes Fegley, an American actor. A ready-made answer when someone asks “Oakes, like who?” Oakes Fegley's Wikipedia article is available in 21 languages, a good sign of just how widely known they are.

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• 👶How commonAbout 1 in every 30,488 baby boys born in the US in 2025 was named Oakes, 56 babies in all. In a typical school of 500 kids, your Oakes would very likely be the only one.
• 📜HistoryOakes first shows up in US birth records in 2012, the first year at least 5 babies got it. That makes it a fairly new name, younger than many of today's parents.
• 🏆Best yearOakes is at its all-time high right now: #2,421 in 2025.
• ✨New on the sceneOakes wasn't given to enough babies to be counted in 2000. It only took off after 2012.
• 🚀TrendOakes has climbed 5,081 places in the US rankings over the last five years and now sits at #2,421. Fast risers like this often keep climbing, so expect to hear it more.
• 📍Where it's lovedOakes is most popular in Kentucky, where it ranks #625, followed by Tennessee (#842). It's in the top 1,000 in 2 states.
• 💬MeaningIn English, Oakes means “near the oak trees”.

About the name Oakes

Oakes is a boy name of English origin meaning “near the oak trees”. It has 5 letters and 1 syllable, starting with O and ending in “-kes”. US birth records list Oakes for boys from 2012 to 2025, in 14 of those 14 years. Its best year was 2025, when it ranked #2,421 among boy names. In 2025 it ranked #2,421, with 56 babies.

Origin:English names