Woods
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #1,466 for boys in 2025, 121 births
Given to boys 98.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 121 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 688since 1912
Woods over time
Rank among boys' names. Woods 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 | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | #1,466 | 121 |
| 2024 | — | #1,752 | 94 | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #1,954 | 79 |
| 2022 | — | #1,826 | 88 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,193 | 64 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,886 | 41 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,993 | 40 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,446 | 32 | |
| 2017 | — | #4,594 | 21 | |
| 2016 | — | #5,318 | 17 | |
| 2015 | — | #5,746 | 15 | |
| 2014 | — | #4,702 | 20 | |
| 2013 | — | #8,789 | 8 | |
| 2012 | — | #12,274 | 5 | |
| 2011 | — | #9,600 | 7 | |
| 2010 | — | #9,693 | 7 | |
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| 2006 | — | #12,055 | 5 | |
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| 1919 | — | #3,736 | 6 | |
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| 1917 | — | #3,545 | 6 | |
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| 1912 | — | #2,544 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Woods! It came in at #2,544, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1912–1916, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Woods is popular in 2019
No state had 5 or more boys named Woods in 2019, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Woods
- 286 spots since 2024 (#1,752 → #1,466)
- 1,420 spots since 2020 (#2,886 → #1,466)
- 4,280 spots since 2015 (#5,746 → #1,466)
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 2025 at #1,466 (121 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,116 boys born in 2025 were named Woods (0.01%)
- 70.8% of all boys named Woods (487) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 17 | #2,544 (1912) | #3,275 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 12 | #8,927 (2004) | #10,491 |
| 2010s | 172 | #2,993 (2019) | #6,716 |
| 2020s | 487 | #1,466 (2025) | #2,013 |
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.
Woods in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 44,855 of them was named Woods, which outranked 78.8% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,943Travon41
- #2,943Tysen41
- #2,943Zian41
- #2,993Woods40
- #2,993Acen40
- #2,993Antwon40
- #2,993Asael40
- #3,052Aahan39
- #3,052Adem39
- #3,052Advait39
Tied with 58 names at #2,993; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.