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Woodie

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Woodie is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 604th, in 1886.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
194648 births
Best rank
#604in 1886
Since 1880
2,262people given the name
Babies named Woodie, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

1,924 boys have been named Woodie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1946, with 48 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 48 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1940, and the 1940s alone account for 21%. It has spent 15 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 338 girls have also been given it, 15% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Woodie
1880s61
1890s44
1900s52
1910s271
1920s283
1930s238
1940s408
1950s288
1960s144
1970s85
1980s34
1990s16

In 1946, its biggest year

Woodie was the 980th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1946 were James, Robert, John, William and Richard. See all of 1946.

Names that rose and fell with Woodie

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.