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Woodie

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Variant of Woody

Woodie has been given to 2,262 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1946, with 48 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 85% boys, 15% girls all-time.

Babies named Woodie, 1998

1 in 735,000

Woodie over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Woodie over time

In 1998, Woodie went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

18801998

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Woodie: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Woody

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Woodie means

Woodie is a variant of Woody.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Woodie is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈwʊd.i/ for Woodie.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Woody.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,924 boys were recorded with the name Woodie between 1880 and 1998. Its highest annual count was 48 in 1946; its best national rank was #604 in 1886.

In the United States, 338 girls were recorded with the name Woodie between 1888 and 1954. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1926; its best national rank was #1,172 in 1893.

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 Woodie?

Woodie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1998, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1998
1 in 735,000
5 of 3,677,189 births
Among boys only
1 in 382,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1998
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
509,768 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Woodie 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 1998 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 509,768 children born in 1998 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Woodie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Woodies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Woodie was born before 1940 — so the typical Woodie is around 85 today.

Median birth year
1940
About 85 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
21.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
567
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1940s — 21.2% of all recorded uses (408).

Is Woodie 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1946 (48)
Years since peak
79
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#604
1886

Spellings of Woodie

Woodie is not the most common spelling — Brodie is, with 30.1% against Woodie's 5.1%.

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 Woodie is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Woodie was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 69,438 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 12,500
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 25,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 100,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Kentucky1 in —
  6. 6North Carolina1 in —
  7. 7Virginia1 in —

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. Woodie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Woodie is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Woodie was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 791,910 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in —
  2. 2Georgia1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Woodie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Woodie around the world

Where Woodie 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
    2014–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023

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

Woodie by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#604
1886
Peak year
1946
48 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
1998
All-time count
1,924
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,172
1893
Peak year
1926
19 that year
First recorded
1888
Last recorded
1954
All-time count
338
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Woodie

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

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Sibling names for Woodie

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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