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The WOODY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 18,069 1825 0.007 67
United States (1880 census) 2,842 2153 0.006 57
Change since 1880 +15227 +328 +0.001 +10
Other Countries
Australia 7 115947 0 0
United Kingdom 28 27770 0 1
Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Classification and Origin of WOODY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the WOODY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the WOODY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of WOODY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 873 4.83
Mixed Race 307 1.7
White (Hispanic) 235 1.3
Asian/Pacific 49 0.27
White (Caucasian) 13,611 75.33
Black/African American 2,992 16.56

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the WOODY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of WOODY in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of WOODY.

Similar names to WOODY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as WOODY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for WOODY

The following words are slight variants of WOODY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.