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Woodford vs Woodroe

American parents have registered 784 Woodroes since 1880, against 578 Woodfords. But in 2025 it was Woodford that was commoner, 8 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Woodford against Woodroe, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Woodford Woodroe

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 51 years in which either name was published, Woodroe for 26 years and Woodford for 25 years. The lead changed hands 18 times.

12 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Woodford Woodroe
Total US births 578784
Most in one year 2872
Babies in 2025 8under 5
Estimated living today 11070
Median age today 7581
Peak year 19161918
Best rank 1,265th boys761st boys
Rank in 2025 8,910thunranked
First recorded 19111912
Girls / boys 0 / 5780 / 784

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Woodroes alive today are over 81; half the Woodfords are over 75. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Woodford and Woodroe.