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Woods: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 121 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,476 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 95% of babies named Woods in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,476 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Woods: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 121 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,476 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 121 (2025).
In 2025, 121 US boys were named Woods, making it the 1,476th most common boys’ name of the year, up 289 places from #1,765 in 2024. That is 27 more than the 94 boys named Woods in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,476, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 121. For comparison, it was #5,977 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Woods in 21 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 5 babies. In all, 699 US babies have been given the name, 1.6% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 498 babies named Woods.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 597 US boys were named Woods; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 121. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,116 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Woods ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #514 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.
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US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 9 | #514 | — |
| Indiana | 7 | #840 | — |
| Alabama | 5 | #873 | — |
| Missouri | 5 | #989 | — |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,185 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,251 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,462 | — |
| California | 8 | #1,982 | — |
| Texas | 8 | #2,071 | — |
| Florida | 5 | #2,085 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,840 | 121 | #1,476 |
| 2024 | — | — | 94 | #1,765 |
| 2023 | 5 | #17,478 | 79 | #1,968 |
| 2022 | — | — | 88 | #1,838 |
| 2021 | — | — | 64 | #2,223 |
| 2020 | — | — | 41 | #2,921 |
| 2019 | — | — | 40 | #3,049 |
| 2018 | — | — | 32 | #3,520 |
| 2017 | — | — | 21 | #4,740 |
| 2016 | — | — | 17 | #5,542 |
| 2015 | — | — | 15 | #5,977 |
| 2014 | — | — | 20 | #4,860 |
| 2013 | — | — | 8 | #9,620 |
| 2012 | — | — | 5 | #14,135 |
| 2011 | — | — | 7 | #10,731 |
| 2010 | — | — | 7 | #10,709 |
| 2006 | — | — | 5 | #13,945 |
| 2004 | — | — | 7 | #9,902 |
| 1919 | — | — | 6 | #4,161 |
| 1917 | — | — | 6 | #3,973 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,901 |
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).