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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| 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.
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 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
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).
Tied with 2,421 names at #15,194; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
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).
- #1,941Unknown80
- #1,941Vedant80
- #1,941Zacari80
- #1,954Woods79
- #1,954Aditya79
- #1,954Avian79
- #1,954Aviel79
- #1,970Adolfo78
- #1,970Asad78
- #1,970Ayven78
Tied with 15 names at #1,954; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.