Wood

Last seen for girls in 2023 at #13,462 · #9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births
Given to boys 98.2% of the time

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Peak · boys
1882 · 6 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
320
since 1880

Wood over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Wood has never cracked the top 800 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201925peak #837, 1882boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#9,7147
2024#8,9878
2023#13,4626#5,66616
2022#8,9908
2021#10,7996
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1991#8,2365
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1954#3,4526
1953#3,1437
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1947#3,3706
1946
1945#3,3385
1944
1943#3,5385
1942
1941#2,6568
1940#3,4595
1939
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1937
1936#2,8547
1935
1934#2,7428
1933#3,6425
1932#3,3616
1931#3,7635
1930#2,7819
1929
1928#4,1515
1927#3,7806
1926#3,1398
1925#2,31313
1924#3,5057
1923#2,61411
1922#3,2528
1921#2,63211
1920#3,4897
1919#2,38512
1918#2,26013
1917#3,2177
1916#2,25912
1915#2,07013
1914#1,60815
1913#2,8215
1912#1,8858
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1888#9176
1887
1886#9595
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1883
1882#8376
1881#8665
1880#9095
First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Wood was already there! It came in at #909, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1883–1887, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Wood
Momentum · boys
Brand new
  • 727 spots since 2024 (#8,987#9,714)
  • Biggest jump: 43 spots in 1881 (#909#866)
Rise & fade · boys
2 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1882 at #837 (6 births)
  • Births halved by 1883, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 5 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 1880–1882
Share of babies · boys
1 in 18,948
  • Highest: 1 in 18,948 boys born in 1882 were named Wood (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 244,011 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1910s
  • 26.6% of all boys named Wood (85) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s27#837 (1882)#898
1890s0
1900s0
1910s85#1,608 (1914)#2,313
1920s76#2,313 (1925)#3,208
1930s40#2,742 (1934)#3,191
1940s29#2,656 (1941)#3,272
1950s13#3,143 (1953)#3,298
1960s0
1970s0
1980s0
1990s5#8,236 (1991)#8,236
2000s0
2010s0
2020s45#5,666 (2023)#8,831

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Wood in 1925

boys
#2,313
13 births · 1 in 85,840 boys

Top boys' names in 1925

  1. #1Robert60,895
  2. #2John57,195
  3. #3William53,310
  4. #4James52,680
  5. #5Charles29,580
  6. #6George26,560
  7. #7Joseph24,613
  8. #8Richard23,269
  9. #9Edward20,090
  10. #10Donald19,193
  11. #2,313Wood13
More about 1925

boys

1,115,919 boys got a published name in 1925; 1 in 85,840 of them was named Wood, which outranked 52.5% of the 4,867 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Wood
  1. #2,193Vinton14
  2. #2,193Wallie14
  3. #2,193Wells14
  4. #2,313Wood13
  5. #2,313Abelardo13
  6. #2,313Alfonza13
  7. #2,313Alvino13
  8. #2,435Abelino12
  9. #2,435Alban12
  10. #2,435Albertus12

Tied with 121 names at #2,313; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1924
Risers
  1. 548Okey#1,532#984
  2. 494Eddy#1,492#998
  3. 422Terrence#1,223#801
  4. 371Hughie#1,355#984
  5. 363Rexford#1,287#924
Fallers
  1. 444Baxter#916#1,360
  2. 429Adelbert#817#1,246
  3. 407Jonnie#925#1,332
  4. 406Faustino#984#1,390
  5. 387Deward#859#1,246

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1925