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Haywood

#6,940 in 2025Boys' name

Fenced wood

Haywood has been given to 6,541 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #6,940 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1919, with 137 recorded.

Babies named Haywood, 2025

1 in 276,000

Haywood over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Haywood: meaning, origin, and history

Fenced wood

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Haywood means

Haywood means “fenced wood”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,541 boys were recorded with the name Haywood between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 137 in 1919; its best national rank was #369 in 1899.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,300 in 2020 to #6,940 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,457 in 2015 to #6,940 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Haywood?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,940
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Haywood sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Haywood. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Haywoods were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Haywood was born before 1939 — so the typical Haywood is around 86 today.

Median birth year
1939
About 86 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
16.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,331
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 16.4% of all recorded uses (1,073).

Is Haywood rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−346
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,360
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−483
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.92×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.8%
Peak was 1919 (137)
Years since peak
106
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#369
1899

Spellings of Haywood

Haywood is the most-used spelling, taking 56.4% of the 11,605 babies given a near-identical spelling.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Haywood is used

Across 1910–2025, Haywood was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 2,941 boys, against 1 in 27,640 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

034 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in 2,941
  2. 2Virginia1 in 6,667
  3. 3Alabama1 in 10,000
  4. 4Mississippi1 in 14,286
  5. 5Georgia1 in 33,333
  6. 6South Carolina1 in 33,333
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 50,000
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Haywood has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Haywood around the world

Where Haywood ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2010–2010
    #4,678
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Notable people named Haywood

People whose public names include Haywood, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Haywood by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,940
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,360
Best rank ever
#369
1899
Peak year
1919
137 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,541
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Haywood

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Haywood

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Haywood, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Haywood

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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