Woodford is a male first name.
Recently, the name Woodford has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Woodford. That means that a boy named Woodford is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Woodford.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Woodford. Boys named Woodford have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 1,103 Woodford ranked higher than ever in 1916. By comparison, there have been 95 years in which the first name Woodford has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2021. In general, parents name their sons Woodford only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Woodford was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Woodford continues to be a precious jewel: 7 newborns were named Woodford that year, ranking #8,311 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Woodford, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
Meeting a man or boy named Woodford is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Woodford can be found in only two: Alabama and Kentucky. No other state currently has residents named Woodford. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Woodford living in one state or another. (If your name is Woodford and you live outside of Alabama or Kentucky, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Woodford is in Kentucky, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Kentucky, only 0.00554% of all male residents are called Woodford – that’s just one in 18,063! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 161 men going by that name. So, if your name is Woodford, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter W is quite rare as an initial letter for boys' names: only 1.5% of all common boys' names in the US begin with a W, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. Nevertheless, W is by no means the rarest initial. While J, A and D are the most common first letters of boys' names, X, U and Q are the least common initials of feminine first names.
With eight letters, the name Woodford is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that since 1.5% of all boys’ names begin with a W, this initial occurs less than half as often as the other letters on average. By the way, of the comparatively few boys' names that begin with a W, William is currently the most common.
If your name is Woodford and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Woodford, you can simply say:
Windmill
Orange
Orange
Dinosaur
Fox
Orange
Rocket
Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Woodford
Woodford
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
W
O
O
D
F
O
R
D
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
W
O
O
D
F
O
R
D
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Woodford sounds like this:
