Woods
Woods was given to 121 boys in 2025, #1,476 among boys’ names; 699 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Woods by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Woods?
#1,476 among boys’ names, 2025
Woods rose from #5,973 in 2015 to #1,476 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 7.8 to 70.8 per million.
127 babies in 2025, the peak
Woods peaked in 2025, when 127 babies were given it (121 boys, #1,476 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 94 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 121 | #1,476 | 70.8 |
| 2024 | 94 | #1,765 | 54.6 |
| 2023 | 79 | #1,967 | 46.2 |
| 2022 | 88 | #1,838 | 50.4 |
| 2021 | 64 | #2,222 | 36.6 |
| 2020 | 41 | #2,920 | 23.8 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,047 | 22.3 |
| 2018 | 32 | #3,516 | 17.6 |
| 2017 | 21 | #4,736 | 11.3 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,538 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #5,973 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 20 | #4,856 | 10.4 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,615 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 5 | #14,128 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 7 | #10,724 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 7 | #10,702 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 5 | #13,938 | 2.4 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,896 | 3.5 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,160 | 6.1 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,972 | 6.5 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,900 | 11.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Woods a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 699 Americans recorded as Woods, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 girls and 121 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Woods: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Woods, and how old are they?
An estimated 677 Americans named Woods and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 2 and 7. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 407 people named Woods (59 women and girls, 348 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 193 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Woods
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
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