Woodie

Where Woodie comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Woodie.

  • Vowel-ended
Woodie through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #909 among boys, with 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1886
    Peak, #578
    11 babies named Woodie, its best rank.
  3. 1889
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1907
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
  5. 1940
    Woodie Fryman born
    American baseball player
  6. 1943
    Woodie Flowers born
    American engineering academic
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Woodie Flowers · American engineering academic, 1943–2019
  • Woodie Fryman · American baseball player, 1940–2011
  • Woodie Held · American baseball player, 1932–2009
  • Woodie Wilson · American stock car racing driver, 1925–1994

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.