Woodrow
Woodrow is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 99 births. Its best rank was 44th, in 1913.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 990.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19183,358 births
- Best rank
- #44in 1913
- Since 1900
- 39,005people given the name
The story in the numbers
39,005 boys have been named Woodrow in the United States since 1900, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 3,358 births — 0.33% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 99 births in 2024, against 3,358 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1921, and the 1910s alone account for 47%. It has spent 77 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 8 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Woodrow | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 72 | |
| 1910s | 18,355 | |
| 1920s | 4,542 | |
| 1930s | 2,920 | |
| 1940s | 4,761 | |
| 1950s | 2,808 | |
| 1960s | 1,785 | |
| 1970s | 1,149 | |
| 1980s | 742 | |
| 1990s | 557 | |
| 2000s | 284 | |
| 2010s | 576 | |
| 2020s | 454 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Woodrow was the 58th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Woodrow
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Casimerpeak 1918
- Sigmundpeak 1918
- Attiliopeak 1916
- Erlingpeak 2023
- Masaopeak 1918
- Isidorepeak 1919
- Hymanpeak 1916
- Arnopeak 1915
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.