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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Wood

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

#10,627

down −794 places

2025 births

7

down −1 births

All-time births

320

2% of them in 2025

More common than

78%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2023
16 births
Best rank
#941
in 1882
First recorded
1880
#1,053 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1937
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
41 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 202316#5,900Peak
  2. 191415#1,684
  3. 191513#2,179
  4. 191813#2,395
  5. 192513#2,433

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #941 in 1882 · peak births 16 in 2023

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 98% boys■ 2% girls

320 boys · 6 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Wood has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.