Wood

Where Wood comes from

Wood hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #909 among boys — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1882
    Peak, #837
    6 babies named Wood — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1883
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1918
    Wood Moy born
    American actor
  5. 1969
    Wood Harris born
    American actor
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Wood Harris · American actor, born 1969
  • Wood Moy · American actor, 1918–2017
  • Wood B. Kyle · U.S. Marine Corps Major General, 1915–2000

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.