Woodruff
Last seen for boys in 1959 at #3,290
- Peak · boys
- 1917 · 18 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 147since 1912
Woodruff over time
Rank among boys' names. Woodruff 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
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| 1959 | #3,290 | 7 |
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| 1956 | #3,942 | 5 |
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| 1953 | #3,798 | 5 |
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| 1947 | #3,370 | 6 |
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| 1944 | #3,430 | 5 |
| 1943 | #2,964 | 7 |
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| 1938 | #2,868 | 7 |
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| 1935 | #3,252 | 6 |
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| 1929 | #3,959 | 5 |
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| 1926 | #4,201 | 5 |
| 1925 | #3,741 | 6 |
| 1924 | #4,347 | 5 |
| 1923 | #4,239 | 5 |
| 1922 | #2,347 | 13 |
| 1921 | #3,869 | 6 |
| 1920 | #2,459 | 12 |
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| 1917 | #1,755 | 18 |
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| 1914 | #2,271 | 9 |
| 1913 | #2,273 | 7 |
| 1912 | #1,885 | 8 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Woodruff! It came in at #1,885, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1915–1916, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Woodruff is popular in 1912
No state had 5 or more boys named Woodruff in 1912, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Woodruff
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1959
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 1917 at #1,755 (18 births)
- Births halved by 1918, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 51,416 boys born in 1917 were named Woodruff (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 304,931 boys born in 1959 (0.00%)
- 38.8% of all boys named Woodruff (57) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 42 | #1,755 (1917) | #2,046 |
| 1920s | 57 | #2,347 (1922) | #3,645 |
| 1930s | 13 | #2,868 (1938) | #3,060 |
| 1940s | 18 | #2,964 (1943) | #3,255 |
| 1950s | 17 | #3,290 (1959) | #3,677 |
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.
Woodruff in 1912
Top boys' names in 1912
More about 1912
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429,942 boys got a published name in 1912; 1 in 53,743 of them was named Woodruff, which outranked 35.1% of the 2,905 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,746Willian9
- #1,746Yancy9
- #1,746Ysidro9
- #1,885Woodruff8
- #1,885Abbott8
- #1,885Achilles8
- #1,885Adelard8
- #2,045Addis7
- #2,045Adolphe7
- #2,045Agnew7
Tied with 159 names at #1,885; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.