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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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.
Where Woods is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Utah#473 · 1 in 2,185
- Alabama#765 · 1 in 4,304
- Indiana#773 · 1 in 4,523
- Missouri#869 · 1 in 5,562
- Tennessee#1,040 · 1 in 7,354
Best ever in a state: #473 in Utah, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Utah | #473 | 9 | 1 in 2,185 |
| Alabama | #765 | 5 | 1 in 4,304 |
| Indiana | #773 | 7 | 1 in 4,523 |
| Missouri | #869 | 5 | 1 in 5,562 |
| Tennessee | #1,040 | 5 | 1 in 7,354 |
| Michigan | #1,113 | 5 | 1 in 8,039 |
| North Carolina | #1,277 | 5 | 1 in 10,294 |
| California | #1,829 | 8 | 1 in 21,934 |
| Florida | #1,831 | 5 | 1 in 19,107 |
| Texas | #1,908 | 8 | 1 in 21,881 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 |
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| 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 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 267,878 of them was named Woods, which outranked 23.6% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
- #11,932Zyaria7
- #11,932Zyleigh7
- #11,932Zyniah7
- #13,208Woods6
- #13,208Aadhirai6
- #13,208Aadhyasri6
- #13,208Aafia6
- #14,942Aadhini5
- #14,942Aadriti5
- #14,942Aaima5
Tied with 1,733 names at #13,208; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 14,116 of them was named Woods, which outranked 89.5% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
- #1,459Leander122
- #1,459Luther122
- #1,459Ross122
- #1,466Woods121
- #1,466Akiva121
- #1,466Calloway121
- #1,466Dominique121
- #1,477Arnold120
- #1,477Derick120
- #1,477Ewan120
Tied with 10 names at #1,466; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.