Our names have the potential to influence our behavior, physical appearance, career path and life choices, popularity, and how others perceive us. If a child has a story behind his name, it can motivate him to be like his namesake and to emulate that person’s good qualities.
Go through the list of popular personalities named Oakley:
Oakley Hoopes Bailey (1843–1947), prolific panoramic map creator
Central Cee, stage name of Oakley Neil H T Caesar-Su (born 1998), British rapper
Oakley C. Collins (1916–1994), American politician
Oakley C. Curtis (1865–1924), American politician and 50th governor of Maine
Oakley Haldeman (1909–1986), American songwriter (“Here Comes Santa Claus”), composer, author and the general manager for a music publisher
Oakley Hall (1920–2008), American novelist
Oakley C. Johnson (1890–1976), American socialist political activist and writer
Oakley G. Kelly (1891–1966), American record setting pilot for the United States Army Air Service
T. J. Oakley Rhinelander (1858–1946), American heir and real estate magnate who was prominent in New York Society during the Gilded Age
George Oakley Totten Jr. (1866–1939), one of Washington D.C.’s most prolific and skilled architects in the Gilded Age