Wood
Wood was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,623 among boys’ names; 326 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wood by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Wood?
#10,623 among boys’ names, 2025
Wood entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #10,623 in 2025.
22 babies in 2023, the peak
Wood peaked in 2023, when 22 babies were given it (16 boys, #5,895 among boys’ names). The 7 births of 2025 are 32% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,623 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,828 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 16 | #5,895 | 9.4 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,773 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 6 | #12,064 | 3.4 |
| 1991 | 5 | #9,602 | 2.5 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,819 | 2.9 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,419 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 6 | #3,725 | 3.3 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,774 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | 5 | #4,031 | 3.5 |
| 1941 | 8 | #2,868 | 6.5 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,931 | 4.3 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,143 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 8 | #2,964 | 7.7 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,143 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,770 | 5.7 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,312 | 4.8 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,014 | 8.2 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,714 | 4.5 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,201 | 5.3 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,375 | 7.2 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,432 | 11.6 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,858 | 6.2 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,769 | 10.0 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,525 | 7.4 |
| 1921 | 11 | #2,800 | 10.0 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,812 | 6.6 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,506 | 12.2 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,394 | 12.8 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,539 | 7.6 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,387 | 13.5 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,178 | 15.3 |
| 1914 | 15 | #1,683 | 22.9 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,252 | 9.8 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,040 | 18.6 |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,026 | 49.6 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,106 | 45.1 |
| 1882 | 6 | #940 | 52.8 |
| 1881 | 5 | #994 | 49.6 |
| 1880 | 5 | #1,052 | 45.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Wood a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 326 Americans recorded as Wood, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Wood: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wood, and how old are they?
An estimated 78 Americans named Wood and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 465 people named Wood (90 women and girls, 375 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 42 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Wood rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
More about Wood and names like it
- The most given names of the 2020sWood peaked in 2023.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Wood since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Wood.
- Names starting with WMost given first.