girls:
6 births since 2023
#5710 (0th percentile)
boys:
305 births since 1880
#4281 (7th percentile)
overall:
311 births since 1880
#7428 (4th percentile)
The name Wood is the #7,428 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 311 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 4.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,281 (6.6% percentile) for all time with 305 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,710 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 2023.
Wood has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 2023 for girls). Birth data for Wood is available in 39 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (39 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Wood has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 72.7% of babies named Wood were boys.
For boys, Wood reached its peak popularity in 1914, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #446) with 22 births per million. The name was most common in 1882, with 49 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Wood ranks #900 for boys (1.2% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 17.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Wood reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #946) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). Currently, Wood is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #946 (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Wood".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Wood. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 97.7% confident that Wood is pronounced as wood, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is wuhd, at 2.3% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like W UH1 D) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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