Woody

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Woody: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Woody: Recorded every year since 1999, it reached #347 in 2020, and it stood at #422 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
26years from first to last
#347highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1999–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1999	#2943
2000	#2501
2001	#1202
2002	#671
2003	#546
2004	#555
2005	#678
2006	#481
2007	#492
2008	#557
2009	#581
2010	#470
2011	#490
2012	#466
2013	#464
2014	#409
2015	#420
2016	#391
2017	#409
2018	#391
2019	#362
2020	#347
2021	#356
2022	#371
2023	#396
2024	#422

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1999 to 2024.

In 2021: #356 among boys in England and Wales, #631 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1999–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1999
First recorded at #2943 among boys in England and Wales in 1999 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1999–2024
Highest recorded position: #347 among boys in England and Wales, in 2020 (recorded 1999–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #422 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Woody appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 26 years beginning in 1999, and has registered 1,951 births with the name.

Woody across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Woody's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2943 (1999)	#347 (2020)	#422 (2024)	26 of 26	1,951 (1999–2024)	129 (2020)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#713 (2016)	#631 (2021)	#631 (2021)	2 of 6	7 (2016–2021)	4 (2021)

Woody by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Woody in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	416	10 of 10	42
2010s	968	10 of 10	97
2020sbusiest	564	5 of 10	113

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 113 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2005 and 2006, when recorded births rose by 26, from 38 to 64.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Woody appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1999 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #347 in England and Wales in 2020.

Woody's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#422	95	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#396	100	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#371	114	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#356	126	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#347	129	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#362	122	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#391	111	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#409	107	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#391	113	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#420	98	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#409	99	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#464	83	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#466	85	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#490	74	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#470	76	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#581	56	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#557	59	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#492	66	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#481	64	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#678	38	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#555	46	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#546	42	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#671	29	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1202	12	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2501	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2943	3	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	male	#398	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#631	4	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#713	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1999 and 2024, ranked in 26 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #347, first reached in 2020.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 129 births, registered in England and Wales in 2020.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2014, and 17 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aris · #346, 26y
Fiza · #346, 27y
Rokas · #346, 21y
Hashim · #345, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Adedamola · #347, 22y
Aleeza · #347, 28y
Andi · #347, 29y
Zachery · #347, 29y

Woody was ranked #347 in England and Wales · Boys in 2020. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Woody and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Woody without appearing here.

Woody moved ahead of

Rune Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2943 and #2943 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #555 and #3651.
Aria Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2501 and #2501 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #1202 and #2587.
Arne Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2501 and #2501 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #1202 and #2587.
Harper Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2943 and #2425 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #1202 and #2587.

Moved the opposite way to Woody

Aaron Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Woody went from #2943 to #422 while Aaron went from #36 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Woody went from #2943 to #422 while Adam went from #21 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Woody went from #2943 to #422 while Alan went from #232 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Woody went from #2943 to #422 while Alex went from #45 to #171.

Moved the same way as Woody

Albie Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Woody went from #2943 to #422 and Albie from #750 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Woody went from #2943 to #422 and Alfie from #64 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Woody went from #2943 to #422 and Alfred from #150 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Woody went from #2943 to #422 and Archie from #108 to #10.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1999 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #347 in England and Wales in 2020. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Woody

Woody at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Woody across 2 official records

Woody by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Woody appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Woody at a glance

Woody across 2 official records

Woody by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Woody appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Woody

Woody and the names beside it

Woody moved ahead of

Moved the opposite way to Woody

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