Woodson
#2,450 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Woodson has been given to 1,359 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #2,450 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 56 recorded.
Babies named Woodson, 2025
1 in 59,200
Woodson 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Woodson?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 59,200
- 56 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 30,500
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,450
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 41,035 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Woodson 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 41,035 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Woodson. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Woodsons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Woodson was born before 1948 — so the typical Woodson is around 77 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 16.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 33.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 669
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 16.7% of all recorded uses (227).
Is Woodson 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
- +296
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,354
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,826
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 3.11×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (56)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.7% average annual change
Spellings of Woodson
Woodson is not the most common spelling — Woodrow is, with 93.2% against Woodson's 3.2%.
Where Woodson is used
Across 1910–2025, Woodson was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 285,686 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 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. Woodson has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Woodson by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Woodson
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Woodson
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.