Oaklyn is a modern American coinage that combines the word oak, the "oak tree" that stands for strength and endurance, with the fashionable ending -lyn heard in Brooklyn and Adalyn. It appeared with the wave of nature names in the 2010s and is often spelled Oaklynn as well. In the United States Oaklyn was still number 3079 in 2015, jumped into the top 1000 in 2017, peaked at 494 in 2018 and ranks 637 in 2025.