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How popular is “Woods” in the USA?

Number of people named “Woods” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Woods” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Woods” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Woods” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Woods” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Woods” by birth year

This chart shows how “Woods” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1912 5 0.00000506 5 -100%
1917 6 0.00000299 6 -100%
1919 6 0.000002843 6 -100%
2004 7 0.000001832 7 -100%
2006 5 0.000001264 5 -100%
2010 7 0.000001894 7 -100%
2011 7 0.000001914 7 -100%
2012 5 0.000001367 5 -100%
2013 8 0.000002194 8 -100%
2014 20 0.000005396 20 -100%
2015 15 0.000004053 15 -100%
2016 17 0.000004634 17 -100%
2017 21 0.000005872 21 -100%
2018 32 0.000009102 32 -100%
2019 40 0.000011524 40 -100%
2020 41 0.000012273 41 -100%
2021 64 0.00001889 64 -100%
2022 88 0.000026011 88 -100%
2023 84 0.000025368 5 79 -88%
2024 94 0.000028241 94 -100%

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