Woodrow
A boys’ name of Old English origin, meaning row of houses by the wood.
Woodrow by the numbers
In 2025, 22 babies in England and Wales were named Woodrow. In the US, 73 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 3,358 babies in 1918, so it is a 1910s name that has since fallen a long way.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Woodrow. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Woodsonson of the man from the woods29 in the US (2017)
Other names that mean a forest or wood
Like Woodrow, each of these has a forest or wood in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Sawyerone who saws wood; woodcutter5,531 in the US (2017)
- Silasof the forest, woods3,309 in the US (2017)
- Lennoxelm grove or from the place of the elms1,200 in the US (2017)
- Emberglowing piece of coal or wood192 in England and Wales (2025)
- Henleyhigh wood or clearing670 in the US (2017)
- Keithforest; from gaelic cèith582 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Woodrow
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