Woody
A boys’ name of Old English origin, meaning from the wood; a form of Woodrow.
Woody by the numbers
In 2025, 103 babies in England and Wales were named Woody. In the US, 5 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given far more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 116 babies in 1946, so it is a 1940s name that has since fallen a long way.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Woody. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean a forest or wood
Like Woody, 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 Woody
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