Woodruff

Last seen for boys in 1959 at #3,290

Peak · boys
1917 · 18 births
Debut · boys
8 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
147
since 1912

Woodruff over time

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

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201913peak #1,755, 1917boys
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First appearance
1912

The first year at least five boys were named Woodruff! It came in at #1,885, and was given to 8 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1915–1916, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Woodruff is popular in 1913

No state had 5 or more boys named Woodruff in 1913, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Woodruff
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1959
Rise & fade · boys
5 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1912
  • Peaked 1917 at #1,755 (18 births)
  • Births halved by 1918, 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 51,416
  • Highest: 1 in 51,416 boys born in 1917 were named Woodruff (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 304,931 boys born in 1959 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 38.8% of all boys named Woodruff (57) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s42#1,755 (1917)#2,046
1920s57#2,347 (1922)#3,645
1930s13#2,868 (1938)#3,060
1940s18#2,964 (1943)#3,255
1950s17#3,290 (1959)#3,677

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.

Woodruff in 1913

boys
#2,273
7 births · 1 in 73,224 boys

Top boys' names in 1913

  1. #1John29,329
  2. #2William23,538
  3. #3James20,832
  4. #4Robert15,684
  5. #5Joseph14,471
  6. #6George13,874
  7. #7Charles13,191
  8. #8Edward9,474
  9. #9Frank9,237
  10. #10Thomas7,096
  11. #2,273Woodruff7
More about 1913

boys

512,566 boys got a published name in 1913; 1 in 73,224 of them was named Woodruff, which outranked 30.3% of the 3,261 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Woodruff
  1. #2,092Zebedee8
  2. #2,092Zeke8
  3. #2,092Zygmund8
  4. #2,273Woodruff7
  5. #2,273Abbie7
  6. #2,273Abie7
  7. #2,273Algot7
  8. #2,496Acel6
  9. #2,496Ada6
  10. #2,496Addis6

Tied with 222 names at #2,273; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1912
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,050Mathias#1,885 → #835
  2. ↑ 935Hymen#1,885 → #950
  3. ↑ 796Waldemar#1,746 → #950
  4. ↑ 751Rolf#1,746 → #995
  5. ↑ 689Domenico#1,619 → #930
Fallers
  1. ↓ 975Holland#970 → #1,945
  2. ↓ 885Cameron#918 → #1,803
  3. ↓ 868Larue#935 → #1,803
  4. ↓ 726Irene#854 → #1,580
  5. ↓ 688Hughie#892 → #1,580

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

See the top 100 for 1913 →