Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Woody” in the USA?

Number of people named “Woody” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Woody” 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 “Woody” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Woody” by birth year

This chart shows how “Woody” 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
1882 5 0.00002257 5 -100%
1883 7 0.000032266 7 -100%
1884 8 0.000032859 8 -100%
1886 7 0.000027417 7 -100%
1897 5 0.000014411 5 -100%
1900 7 0.000015547 7 -100%
1904 5 0.000012392 5 -100%
1910 5 0.000008464 5 -100%
1911 5 0.000007761 5 -100%
1912 15 0.000015181 15 -100%
1913 14 0.000012312 14 -100%
1914 17 0.000012003 17 -100%
1915 21 0.00001146 21 -100%
1916 23 0.00001189 23 -100%
1917 28 0.000013953 28 -100%
1918 26 0.000011975 26 -100%
1919 6 0.000002843 6 -100%
1920 21 0.000009281 21 -100%
1921 15 0.000006425 15 -100%
1922 22 0.000009611 22 -100%
1923 15 0.000006515 15 -100%
1924 21 0.000008818 21 -100%
1925 17 0.000007286 17 -100%
1926 24 0.000010453 24 -100%
1927 22 0.000009485 22 -100%
1928 22 0.00000973 22 -100%
1929 27 0.000012317 27 -100%
1930 22 0.000009895 22 -100%
1931 19 0.000009029 19 -100%
1932 20 0.000009473 20 -100%
1933 35 0.000017505 35 -100%
1934 24 0.000011556 24 -100%
1935 35 0.000016747 35 -100%
1936 24 0.000011552 24 -100%
1937 42 0.000019712 5 37 -76%
1938 40 0.000018078 40 -100%
1939 49 0.000022238 49 -100%
1940 68 0.000029531 68 -100%
1941 83 0.000034066 83 -100%
1942 70 0.000025624 70 -100%
1943 97 0.000034366 97 -100%
1944 105 0.000039032 105 -100%
1945 101 0.000038071 101 -100%
1946 116 0.000036303 116 -100%
1947 109 0.000030258 109 -100%
1948 82 0.000023751 5 77 -88%
1949 84 0.000024105 84 -100%
1950 85 0.000024262 85 -100%
1951 83 0.000022531 83 -100%
1952 86 0.000022643 86 -100%
1953 96 0.000024911 96 -100%
1954 72 0.000018087 72 -100%
1955 81 0.000020174 81 -100%
1956 84 0.000020373 84 -100%
1957 83 0.000019752 83 -100%
1958 65 0.000015724 65 -100%
1959 78 0.000018759 78 -100%
1960 74 0.000017815 74 -100%
1961 79 0.000019072 79 -100%
1962 72 0.000017842 72 -100%
1963 73 0.000018443 73 -100%
1964 57 0.000014662 57 -100%
1965 56 0.000015446 56 -100%
1966 43 0.000012372 43 -100%
1967 37 0.000010899 37 -100%
1968 45 0.00001332 45 -100%
1969 41 0.000011797 41 -100%
1970 52 0.000014418 52 -100%
1971 53 0.000015441 53 -100%
1972 57 0.000018136 57 -100%
1973 36 0.000011933 36 -100%
1974 45 0.000014803 45 -100%
1975 39 0.000012916 39 -100%
1976 43 0.000014171 43 -100%
1977 65 0.000020463 65 -100%
1978 47 0.000014808 47 -100%
1979 34 0.000010219 34 -100%
1980 29 0.000008419 29 -100%
1981 32 0.00000925 32 -100%
1982 26 0.000007412 26 -100%
1983 20 0.000005775 20 -100%
1984 27 0.000007739 27 -100%
1985 34 0.000009526 34 -100%
1986 31 0.000008715 31 -100%
1987 26 0.000007211 26 -100%
1988 28 0.000007578 28 -100%
1989 34 0.000008844 34 -100%
1990 31 0.000007843 31 -100%
1991 29 0.000007445 29 -100%
1992 22 0.000005727 22 -100%
1993 27 0.000007161 27 -100%
1994 19 0.000005111 19 -100%
1995 24 0.000006554 24 -100%
1996 20 0.000005484 20 -100%
1997 13 0.000003585 13 -100%
1998 9 0.000002447 9 -100%
1999 18 0.000004873 18 -100%
2000 15 0.000003968 15 -100%
2001 9 0.000002404 9 -100%
2002 10 0.000002675 10 -100%
2003 8 0.000002104 8 -100%
2004 10 0.000002617 10 -100%
2005 14 0.000003641 14 -100%
2006 9 0.000002275 9 -100%
2008 9 0.00000229 9 -100%
2009 8 0.000002094 8 -100%
2010 8 0.000002165 8 -100%
2011 9 0.000002461 9 -100%
2012 9 0.000002461 9 -100%
2013 9 0.000002469 9 -100%
2014 10 0.000002698 10 -100%
2015 6 0.000001621 6 -100%
2017 5 0.000001398 5 -100%
2018 16 0.000004551 16 -100%
2019 7 0.000002017 7 -100%
2020 8 0.000002395 8 -100%
2021 12 0.000003542 12 -100%
2022 17 0.000005025 17 -100%
2023 20 0.00000604 20 -100%
2024 11 0.000003305 11 -100%

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