Woodrow is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Woodrow is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 boys have been named Woodrow. In the SmartGenius ranking, Woodrow is #1,844 on the list of most common boys names. In the entire USA, approximately 34,386 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Woodrow. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Who would have thought it? After many years of not appearing at all in the SmartGenius statistics, Woodrow reached its highest rank ever in the year 1913 at #44. In other words: 2,343 newborn boys were named Woodrow that year. Since then, it has been considered to be a universally popular name, chosen by a large number of happy parents every year. Although the times of its highest popularity are now many decades ago, Woodrow is still going strong and has not been forgotten yet. We can only wait and see if there will be a new surprise in store and if Woodrow will be able to top its all-time best ranking ever again.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Woodrow was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Woodrow ranked 1,651 in our SmartGenius statistics. In absolute figures, this means it was given to baby boys a total of 88 times. No one knows what names (or combinations of numbers and letters) will be popular 50 years from now, but given its consistent popularity, there is a good chance that Woodrow will remain a universally popular 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 seven letters, the name Woodrow has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are 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 Woodrow 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 Woodrow, you can simply say:
Windmill
Orange
Orange
Dinosaur
Rocket
Orange
Windmill
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Woodrow
Woodrow
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
W
O
O
D
R
O
W
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
R
O
W
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. Woodrow sounds like this:
