Woodford
#8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
- Peak · boys
- 1916 · 28 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 578since 1911
Woodford over time
Rank among boys' names. Woodford has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,910 | 8 |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #9,823 | 7 |
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| 1969 | #4,404 | 5 |
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| 1964 | #4,039 | 5 |
| 1963 | #4,048 | 5 |
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| 1958 | #2,642 | 10 |
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| 1955 | #3,505 | 6 |
| 1954 | #3,176 | 7 |
| 1953 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,680 | 9 |
| 1951 | — | |
| 1950 | #3,681 | 5 |
| 1949 | #2,802 | 8 |
| 1948 | #2,788 | 8 |
| 1947 | #2,498 | 10 |
| 1946 | #2,271 | 11 |
| 1945 | #2,393 | 9 |
| 1944 | #2,195 | 11 |
| 1943 | #2,182 | 12 |
| 1942 | #1,946 | 14 |
| 1941 | #2,656 | 8 |
| 1940 | #2,478 | 9 |
| 1939 | #3,113 | 6 |
| 1938 | #3,534 | 5 |
| 1937 | #3,518 | 5 |
| 1936 | #2,854 | 7 |
| 1935 | #2,719 | 8 |
| 1934 | #2,973 | 7 |
| 1933 | #2,214 | 11 |
| 1932 | #2,849 | 8 |
| 1931 | #3,763 | 5 |
| 1930 | #1,693 | 19 |
| 1929 | #2,199 | 13 |
| 1928 | #1,822 | 18 |
| 1927 | #2,703 | 10 |
| 1926 | #2,074 | 15 |
| 1925 | #2,012 | 16 |
| 1924 | #2,822 | 10 |
| 1923 | #2,020 | 16 |
| 1922 | #1,883 | 18 |
| 1921 | #1,549 | 24 |
| 1920 | #1,694 | 21 |
| 1919 | #1,481 | 24 |
| 1918 | #1,373 | 27 |
| 1917 | #1,693 | 19 |
| 1916 | #1,265 | 28 |
| 1915 | #1,553 | 20 |
| 1914 | #1,492 | 17 |
| 1913 | #1,441 | 14 |
| 1912 | #1,619 | 10 |
| 1911 | #1,740 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Woodford! It came in at #1,740, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1950–1951, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Woodford
- Debuted 1911
- Peaked 1916 at #1,265 (28 births)
- Births halved by 1924, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 31,789 boys born in 1916 were named Woodford (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 213,509 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 28.4% of all boys named Woodford (164) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 164 | #1,265 (1916) | #1,517 |
| 1920s | 161 | #1,549 (1921) | #2,078 |
| 1930s | 81 | #1,693 (1930) | #2,923 |
| 1940s | 100 | #1,946 (1942) | #2,421 |
| 1950s | 37 | #2,642 (1958) | #3,137 |
| 1960s | 15 | #4,039 (1964) | #4,164 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 0 | — | — |
| 2010s | 0 | — | — |
| 2020s | 20 | #8,910 (2025) | #10,324 |
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.
Woodford in 1921
Top boys' names in 1921
More about 1921
boys
1,101,449 boys got a published name in 1921; 1 in 45,894 of them was named Woodford, which outranked 68.9% of the 4,985 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,509Winslow25
- #1,509Woodie25
- #1,509Woodroe25
- #1,549Woodford24
- #1,549Albino24
- #1,549Alferd24
- #1,549Arlon24
- #1,588Aleck23
- #1,588Amado23
- #1,588Arleigh23
Tied with 38 names at #1,549; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.