Haywood
Haywood is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 13 births. Its best rank was 369th, in 1899.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 130.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1919137 births
- Best rank
- #369in 1899
- Since 1880
- 6,530people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,530 boys have been named Haywood in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1919, with 137 births.
The name has all but left use: 13 births in 2024, against 137 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1939, and the 1920s alone account for 16%. It has spent 84 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Haywood | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 128 | |
| 1890s | 169 | |
| 1900s | 238 | |
| 1910s | 798 | |
| 1920s | 1,073 | |
| 1930s | 907 | |
| 1940s | 897 | |
| 1950s | 798 | |
| 1960s | 553 | |
| 1970s | 375 | |
| 1980s | 226 | |
| 1990s | 140 | |
| 2000s | 95 | |
| 2010s | 86 | |
| 2020s | 47 |
In 1919, its biggest year
Haywood was the 508th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1919 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1919.
Names that rose and fell with Haywood
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Otispeak 1920
- Sylvesterpeak 1920
- Obiepeak 1924
- Ennispeak 1922
- Earnestpeak 1926
- Burrellpeak 1919
- Freemanpeak 1918
- Oranpeak 1922
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.