Wofford

Last seen for boys in 1945 at #3,338

Peak · boys
1922 · 10 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
92
since 1914

Wofford over time

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Rank among boys' names. Wofford has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201919peak #2,801, 1922boys
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First appearance
1914

The first year at least five boys were named Wofford! It came in at #3,264, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1914–1917, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Wofford is popular in 1919

No state had 5 or more boys named Wofford in 1919, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Wofford
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1945
Rise & fade · boys
8 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1914
  • Peaked 1922 at #2,801 (10 births)
  • Births halved by 1923, 1 yr later
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 108,815
  • Highest: 1 in 108,815 boys born in 1922 were named Wofford (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 269,171 boys born in 1945 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 44.6% of all boys named Wofford (41) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s24#3,264 (1914)#3,501
1920s41#2,801 (1922)#3,519
1930s17#3,175 (1937)#3,397
1940s10#3,338 (1945)#3,438

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.

Wofford in 1919

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#3,391
7 births · 1 in 140,017 boys

Top boys' names in 1919

  1. #1John53,522
  2. #2William43,969
  3. #3James42,392
  4. #4Robert41,025
  5. #5Charles25,192
  6. #6George25,170
  7. #7Joseph24,266
  8. #8Edward18,536
  9. #9Frank15,701
  10. #10Thomas13,434
  11. #3,391Wofford7
More about 1919

boys

980,122 boys got a published name in 1919; 1 in 140,017 of them was named Wofford, which outranked 29.5% of the 4,810 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Wofford
  1. #3,115Wirt8
  2. #3,115Ysabel8
  3. #3,115Zachariah8
  4. #3,391Wofford7
  5. #3,391Abb7
  6. #3,391Adalberto7
  7. #3,391Agee7
  8. #3,736Achilles6
  9. #3,736Ade6
  10. #3,736Akio6

Tied with 344 names at #3,391; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1918
Risers
  1. ↑ 446Quinten#1,313 → #867
  2. ↑ 432Dempsey#1,012 → #580
  3. ↑ 341Winton#1,231 → #890
  4. ↑ 334Donnie#1,211 → #877
  5. ↑ 332Edsel#1,062 → #730
Fallers
  1. ↓ 2,008Foch#869 → #2,877
  2. ↓ 582Carmel#949 → #1,531
  3. ↓ 403Eligah#918 → #1,321
  4. ↓ 398Nels#809 → #1,207
  5. ↓ 355Myer#966 → #1,321

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

See the top 100 for 1919 →