Woodson
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Meaning
“Haitian Creole coined given name, English-root; precise meaning uncertain”
How popular is Woodson around the world?
In the United States, 227 babies were named Woodson between 2020 and 2025. In Chile, 2 boys were registered as Woodson in 2021, every accent spelling counted together.
Woodson is on the official records of the United States, Chile and Brazil.
United States
1 in 96,000
In the United States, 227 babies were named Woodson between 2020 and 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Woodson peaked in the 2020s.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Chile
1 in 89,000
In Chile, 2 boys were registered as Woodson in 2021, every accent spelling counted together.
The count never rose above 5 in a year, too few to chart.
First-name registrations with Chile’s civil registry by year of registration, 1920–2021, counted as spelling groups (Sofía, Sofia and Sofìa are one name, shown with its most-registered spelling); the registry withholds nothing, nametree keeps the groups that reached 5 registrations in some year, and shares divide by every registration of the year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil e Identificación (Chile) via the guaguas package, first-name registrations 1920-2021
Brazil
At the 2022 census, 64 people in Brazil were named Woodson, ranked 56,233rd, with a median age of 37.
People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
Not on the record in Spain, Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, England and Wales, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only). Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
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