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First name origin & meaning:

Old English: From the oak meadow

First name variations: Oakes, Oakie, Oaklee, Oakleigh, Oakly, Oklie

Last name origin & meaning:

English: habitational name from any of the numerous places in southern and central England named with the Old English elements āc ‘oak’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.

This name appears in the following lists: Cowboys and Cowgirls