Entry № 7683 · English origin

Oakleigh Oakleigh — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ OAK-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Oak meadow (modern feminine spelling of Oakley)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "oak meadow (modern feminine spelling of oakley)".

Oakleigh is the modern American feminine spelling of Oakley — from the Old English āc-lēah (oak meadow, clearing among oaks). A top-1000 US baby name since 2015. Oakleigh, Australia — suburb of Melbourne. Oakleigh Greene — American model. The oak tree itself has been a symbol of strength and longevity in Celtic, Germanic, and Greek tradition since antiquity.

Oak meadow (modern feminine spelling of Oakley) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Oakleigh
Transliteration
Oakleigh
Pronunciation
/ ˈoʊk.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Oakleigh stands.

Oakleigh does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Oakleighs before her.

Real people

In fiction
Annie Oakley (Oakleigh)
American sharpshooter (surname).
1860

Names connected to Oakleigh.

The number behind Oakleigh.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Oakleigh reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.