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

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Peak · boys
2025 · 121 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
688
since 1912

Woods over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Woods has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202023boysat peak
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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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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#13,2086#1,466121
2024#1,75294
2023#15,1945#1,95479
2022#1,82688
2021#2,19364
2020#2,88641
2019#2,99340
2018#3,44632
2017#4,59421
2016#5,31817
2015#5,74615
2014#4,70220
2013#8,7898
2012#12,2745
2011#9,6007
2010#9,6937
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1919#3,7366
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1917#3,5456
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First appearance
1912

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.

See more about Woods
Momentum · boys
Rising
  • 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)
Rise & fade · boys
113 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1912
  • Peaked 2025 at #1,466 (121 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 14,116
  • Highest: 1 in 14,116 boys born in 2025 were named Woods (0.01%)
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 70.8% of all boys named Woods (487) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s17#2,544 (1912)#3,275
1920s0
1930s0
1940s0
1950s0
1960s0
1970s0
1980s0
1990s0
2000s12#8,927 (2004)#10,491
2010s172#2,993 (2019)#6,716
2020s487#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 2023

girls
#15,194
5 births · 1 in 320,916 girls
boys
#1,954
79 births · 1 in 21,653 boys

Top girls' names in 2023

  1. #1Olivia15,329
  2. #2Emma13,590
  3. #3Charlotte12,638
  4. #4Amelia12,365
  5. #5Sophia11,999
  6. #6Mia11,404
  7. #7Isabella10,871
  8. #8Ava9,737
  9. #9Evelyn9,121
  10. #10Luna7,853
  11. #15,194Woods5

Top boys' names in 2023

  1. #1Liam20,904
  2. #2Noah19,116
  3. #3Oliver14,792
  4. #4James11,739
  5. #5Elijah11,523
  6. #6Mateo11,293
  7. #7Theodore11,093
  8. #8Henry10,996
  9. #9Lucas10,890
  10. #10William10,673
  11. #1,954Woods79
More about 2023

girls

1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 320,916 of them was named Woods, which outranked 13.7% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Woods
  1. #13,462Zynn6
  2. #13,462Zynnia6
  3. #13,462Zyria6
  4. #15,194Woods5
  5. #15,194Aagya5
  6. #15,194Aala5
  7. #15,194Aalaiya5

Tied with 2,421 names at #15,194; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2022
Risers
  1. 1,640Kaeli#2,319#679
  2. 1,512Alitzel#2,388#876
  3. 1,287Emryn#2,174#887
  4. 813Adhara#1,583#770
  5. 717Azari#1,412#695
Fallers
  1. 364Addilynn#940#1,304
  2. 296India#968#1,264
  3. 259Madisyn#805#1,064
  4. 231Chanel#937#1,168
  5. 219Averi#906#1,125

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

boys

1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 21,653 of them was named Woods, which outranked 86.3% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Woods
  1. #1,941Unknown80
  2. #1,941Vedant80
  3. #1,941Zacari80
  4. #1,954Woods79
  5. #1,954Aditya79
  6. #1,954Avian79
  7. #1,954Aviel79
  8. #1,970Adolfo78
  9. #1,970Asad78
  10. #1,970Ayven78

Tied with 15 names at #1,954; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2022
Risers
  1. 858Izael#1,665#807
  2. 662Chozen#1,479#817
  3. 589Eiden#1,479#890
  4. 409Cassian#938#529
  5. 385Kyren#1,322#937
Fallers
  1. 384Dior#842#1,226
  2. 275Maxton#963#1,238
  3. 205Davian#967#1,172
  4. 193Braden#935#1,128
  5. 191Heath#862#1,053

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

See the top 100 for 2023