Given name & surname
Oxley
“from the meadow of oxen”
Oxley is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “from the meadow of oxen.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “from the meadow of oxen.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
How it developed
From Old English oxa (“ox”), built from English ox + -leigh (“lea”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2015. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Oxley through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 83
- 83 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #9,478 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −27%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,478 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 13 in 2016. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,101 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Oxley’s family of names
Oxley has a related form in Oxlea. Oxley has a related form in Oxleah. Oxley has a related form in Oxlee.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 16
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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