How Many People Are Named Woodie?

712

people named Woodie are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 480,034 people in the US has this name

Based on 2,262 babies named Woodie in Social Security records from 1880 to 1998, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#13,183

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#4,741

See the top 100

Peak Year

1926

59 births

Trend

1998

Last year given

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: WUWD-ee
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

Variant of WOODY.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Woodie in English. Counting Woodie and these spellings together, about 3,344 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
8.7%
Male
91.3%

Of the babies given the name Woodie, 8.7% were girls and 91.3% were boys. The share of girls among babies named Woodie fell from 26.8% in the 1910s to 0% in the 1960s.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Woodie alive today is about 69 years old, and 77% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 61 and 79 in 2025.

Under 30 5
0.7%
30 to 59 161
22.6%
60 and over 547
76.7%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Woodie first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1926, to 59 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 1998.

Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 1998

🏆 Rank History

Woodie has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #604, in 1886. Among girls, its best rank was #1,172, in 1893.

BoysGirls
Rank in 2025Not rankedNot ranked
Best rank#604 (1886)#1,172 (1893)
Years in the top 100NoneNone
Rank in its biggest decade#1,081 in the 1940s#2,387 in the 1910s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Woodie alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Woodie were born in Alabama than in any other state: about 58 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Woodie was given 19.1 times as often in Alabama, 8.5 times in Mississippi and 5.1 times in Texas.

Alabama 58
Texas 31
Mississippi 20
North Carolina 9
Kentucky 3
Virginia 2

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