Woods
#1,476 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Woods has been given to 699 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #1,476 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 121 recorded.
Babies named Woods, 2025
1 in 27,400
Woods over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Woods?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 27,400
- 121 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 14,100
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,476
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 18,992 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Woods sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 18,992 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Woods. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Woodss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Woods was born before 2022 — so the typical Woods is around 3 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 70.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 97.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 671
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 70.8% of all recorded uses (487).
Is Woods 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
- +289
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,444
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +4,497
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 8.07×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (121)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.5% average annual change
Spellings of Woods
Woods is not the most common spelling — Woody is, with 47.3% against Woods's 7.7%.
Where Woods is used
Across 2016–2025, Woods was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 44,109 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1North Carolina1 in 16,667
- 2South Carolina1 in 16,667
- 3Utah1 in 20,000
- 4Tennessee1 in 25,000
- 5Georgia1 in 33,333
- 6Missouri1 in 33,333
- 7Alabama1 in 50,000
- 8Indiana1 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.
Woods around the world
Where Woods 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.
- Canada2021–2024#2,328in 2024
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Woods by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Woods
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Woods
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.