Wood
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #13,462 · #9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births
Given to boys 98.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1882 · 6 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 320since 1880
Wood over time
Rank among boys' names. Wood has never cracked the top 800 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 | — | #9,714 | 7 | |
| 2024 | — | #8,987 | 8 | |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 | #5,666 | 16 |
| 2022 | — | #8,990 | 8 | |
| 2021 | — | #10,799 | 6 | |
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| 1991 | — | #8,236 | 5 | |
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| 1954 | — | #3,452 | 6 | |
| 1953 | — | #3,143 | 7 | |
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| 1947 | — | #3,370 | 6 | |
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| 1945 | — | #3,338 | 5 | |
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| 1943 | — | #3,538 | 5 | |
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| 1941 | — | #2,656 | 8 | |
| 1940 | — | #3,459 | 5 | |
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| 1936 | — | #2,854 | 7 | |
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| 1934 | — | #2,742 | 8 | |
| 1933 | — | #3,642 | 5 | |
| 1932 | — | #3,361 | 6 | |
| 1931 | — | #3,763 | 5 | |
| 1930 | — | #2,781 | 9 | |
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| 1928 | — | #4,151 | 5 | |
| 1927 | — | #3,780 | 6 | |
| 1926 | — | #3,139 | 8 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,313 | 13 | |
| 1924 | — | #3,505 | 7 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,614 | 11 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,252 | 8 | |
| 1921 | — | #2,632 | 11 | |
| 1920 | — | #3,489 | 7 | |
| 1919 | — | #2,385 | 12 | |
| 1918 | — | #2,260 | 13 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,217 | 7 | |
| 1916 | — | #2,259 | 12 | |
| 1915 | — | #2,070 | 13 | |
| 1914 | — | #1,608 | 15 | |
| 1913 | — | #2,821 | 5 | |
| 1912 | — | #1,885 | 8 | |
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| 1888 | — | #917 | 6 | |
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| 1886 | — | #959 | 5 | |
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| 1882 | — | #837 | 6 | |
| 1881 | — | #866 | 5 | |
| 1880 | — | #909 | 5 | |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Wood was already there! It came in at #909, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1883–1887, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Wood is popular in 1923
No state had 5 or more boys named Wood in 1923, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Wood
- 727 spots since 2024 (#8,987 → #9,714)
- Biggest jump: 43 spots in 1881 (#909 → #866)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1882 at #837 (6 births)
- Births halved by 1883, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 1880–1882
- Highest: 1 in 18,948 boys born in 1882 were named Wood (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 244,011 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 26.6% of all boys named Wood (85) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 27 | #837 (1882) | #898 |
| 1890s | 0 | — | — |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 85 | #1,608 (1914) | #2,313 |
| 1920s | 76 | #2,313 (1925) | #3,208 |
| 1930s | 40 | #2,742 (1934) | #3,191 |
| 1940s | 29 | #2,656 (1941) | #3,272 |
| 1950s | 13 | #3,143 (1953) | #3,298 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 5 | #8,236 (1991) | #8,236 |
| 2000s | 0 | — | — |
| 2010s | 0 | — | — |
| 2020s | 45 | #5,666 (2023) | #8,831 |
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.
Wood in 1923
Top boys' names in 1923
More about 1923
boys
1,096,102 boys got a published name in 1923; 1 in 99,646 of them was named Wood, which outranked 46.7% of the 4,904 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,446Winferd12
- #2,446Worthy12
- #2,446Zigmond12
- #2,614Wood11
- #2,614Abbie11
- #2,614Agnes11
- #2,614Agostino11
- #2,772Abelino10
- #2,772Adalbert10
- #2,772Aden10
Tied with 157 names at #2,614; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.