Oakeley Surname Meaning & Coat of Arms

Oakeley? Think of it as Oakley with a different pen. The name is usually explained as “oak clearing”.

The extra “e” in Oakeley is a spelling habit rather than a different name. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The same family of names includes Okeley and Oakly.

Oakeley sounds close to O'Kelly, so it can help to search both.

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Oakeley, so the heraldry linked to Oakley is a starting point, not an automatic right. Get the complete Oakeley report, with a museum-style coat of arms.