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Woodley: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,943 in 1923.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,943 in 1923; #5,591 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Woodley in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,591 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1923, at #2,943.
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Woodley: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,943 in 1923 · most boys in one year: 20 (2024).
In 2025, 17 US boys were named Woodley, making it the 5,591st most common boys’ name of the year, down 532 places from #5,059 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 20 boys named Woodley in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,943, reached in 1923. The most boys given the name in a single year was 20, in 2024. For comparison, it was #12,028 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Woodley in 39 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 6 babies. In all, 293 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 82 babies named Woodley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 106 US boys were named Woodley; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 20. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,475 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 17 | #5,591 |
| 2024 | — | — | 20 | #5,059 |
| 2023 | — | — | 20 | #5,057 |
| 2022 | — | — | 16 | #5,854 |
| 2021 | — | — | 9 | #8,793 |
| 2019 | — | — | 8 | #9,695 |
| 2018 | — | — | 5 | #13,995 |
| 2017 | — | — | 6 | #12,176 |
| 2016 | — | — | 5 | #14,097 |
| 2015 | — | — | 6 | #12,028 |
| 2013 | — | — | 5 | #13,970 |
| 2000 | — | — | 6 | #10,307 |
| 1992 | — | — | 5 | #9,788 |
| 1991 | — | — | 5 | #9,610 |
| 1988 | — | — | 7 | #6,405 |
| 1987 | — | — | 8 | #5,441 |
| 1986 | — | — | 9 | #4,842 |
| 1985 | — | — | 8 | #5,135 |
| 1984 | — | — | 7 | #5,541 |
| 1982 | — | — | 6 | #6,371 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #7,263 |
| 1979 | — | — | 6 | #6,041 |
| 1978 | — | — | 7 | #5,048 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,833 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #6,316 |
| 1973 | — | — | 9 | #3,687 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,719 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,740 |
| 1963 | — | — | 5 | #4,614 |
| 1958 | — | — | 8 | #3,269 |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #4,249 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #4,259 |
| 1944 | — | — | 5 | #3,901 |
| 1943 | — | — | 5 | #4,034 |
| 1929 | — | — | 5 | #4,532 |
| 1923 | — | — | 10 | #2,943 |
| 1922 | — | — | 7 | #3,867 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,977 |
| 1918 | — | — | 6 | #4,170 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).