girls:
139 births since 1912
#5577 (2nd percentile)
boys:
38.9k births since 1900
#574 (87th percentile)
overall:
39k births since 1900
#1260 (84th percentile)
The name Woodrow is the #1,260 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 39,043 recorded births since 1900. This represents the 83.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 83.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #574 (87.5% percentile) for all time with 38,904 births since 1900. For girls, it ranks #5,577 (2.4% percentile) for all time with 139 births since 1912.
Woodrow first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1900 (1900 for boys and 1912 for girls). Birth data for Woodrow is available in 120 out of the 124 years between 1900 and 2023 (120 years for boys and 17 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 Woodrow has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Woodrow reached its peak popularity in 1913, achieving the 89.4% percentile (ranked #44) with 4,351 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 4,351 births per million (ranked 89.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2009, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Woodrow ranks #832 for boys (8.7% percentile) with 46 births per million, which is 1.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Woodrow reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #584) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1912, with 19 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1958.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Woodrow".
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