Oakley?

[Strawberryjam88]

What is your views for Oakley for a boy?

My first thoughts were sunglasses. It sounds more like a surname.

Sunglasses or okely dokely - neither are what I'd want to lumber my precious poppet with.

Interesting that folk on this thread have only met female Oakleys. It's still much much more popular as a boy's name: 908 boys named Oakley in 2021 compared to 52 girls.

Awful. Like really really awful.

It's the name of our local butcher's shop, so no.

To me, it sounds like the cartoon mascot of a building society or council-run exercise initiative.

It sounds more like a surname.

Not a fan
Its my husbands favourite sunglasses brand and the only one I know comes from a family from hell type set up and is a total shitbag

Lovely name

I only know it as a friend's surname.

Ghastly name that isn’t a name. I think it’s horrendous. Poor kid.

Oakley, boakley.

Nope. It’s a pet’s name or a pair of sunglasses 😎

I know a dog with that name, so it's a no from me sorry.

I can't imagine an adult male walking into his office job and introducing himself as Oakley. It might be cute as a child but think about their future.

It's a nice sound, but personally I'd file it with all the other Hudson/Jackson/Carter surname-type names, too of the moment for my taste.

Also popular 00's sunglasses.

😂

Wow surprised by the answers here! Thought MN would hate it! I really like it personally. The ‘brand name’ thing is such a weak argument. You can say that about sooooo many perfectly normal names.

Dislike it, sounds more like a place name than a person's name, also reminds me of the old wooden horseboxes.

That's a village in Hampshire

I know one and it gets shortened to Oak all the time. He's a young adult and hates his name.

First thing I think of is a make of horse boxes.

No, not for me. It sounds like something out of a western.

I know two: a dog and a baby boy. I knew the dog first, but even if I didn’t I wouldn’t like it for a person, although I would never say so to the parents. Isn’t it a character on Fifi & the Flowertots (or something similar-sounding)?

My neighbor’s Daschund is called Oakley. He’s vicious and has bitten his human family and their other dog. So it’s no from me!

Hideous. Rayban is better.