Woodie — boys' name

What the Data Says About Woodie

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,924 babies named Woodie between 1880 and 1998, spanning 119 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Woodie currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1998. The name reached its historical peak in 1946, when 48 babies received it in a single year. Woodie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 338 additional births since 1888.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Woodie performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 408 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Woodie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Alabama, which accounts for 250 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Mississippi. In total, SSA state-level files list Woodie in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Woodie in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,924 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.