Woody

What Woody means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Woody yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1946, with 116 babies; 10 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Woody?

US: Rising: up from #10644 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #420 in 2015, #396 now.

Biggest US share so far: 1944, when 105 boys got the name (#598 that year). First in the US records in 1882.

How common

• About 1 in 170,808 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,640 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 6,547 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

US vs UK

Woody is #7679 in the US and #396 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Woody were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

If you like Woody

Boys

• Peter#187“stone, rock”^*
• Louis#249“loud; famous + battle”^*
• Thomas#34“twin”^*
• Malcolm#272Variant of Calum, meaning “dove”^*
• James#6“May He Heel”^*
• Mark#244Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1960, with 58,727 babies; 1,416 in 2025

For a sister

• Margaret#112“pearl”^*
• Mary#125Same root as Miriam, possibly meaning “bitter”^*
• Amy#257“beloved”^*
• Maria#87Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1964, with 10,148 babies; 2,887 in 2025
• Rachel#250“ewe”^*
• Sara#198Variant of Sarah, meaning “masters, princes”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Woody’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.