Woode
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Obsolete form of wood
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/wʊd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Woode is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ghana than in any other country.
- USUnited States≈1 in 851K(inferred from the name graph)
- GHGhana≈1 in 15K
- GYGuyana1 in 22K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ghana (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 172 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Obsolete form of wood.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Woode counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GH Ghana | #648 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Woode | 36 |
| US United States | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 851K | 312 | Woode | 172 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 573K | 101 | Woode | 64 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 637K | — | Woode | 6 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | — | Woode | 7 |
| GY Guyana | — | 34 | 1 in 22K | 34 | Woode | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | 21 | 1 in 486K | 21 | Woode | 7 |
| DK Denmark | — | 13 | 1 in 451K | 13 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 2 | 1 in 27K | 2 | — | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Woode is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In yol, would
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Henri Woodeb. 1909USAmerican composer, lyricist, arranger, and singer (1909-1994)
- Margo Woodeb. 1922USAmerican actress (1922-2018)
- Jimmy Woodeb. 1929USAmerican bassist (1929–2005)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 312 | #60,390 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 101 | #32,945 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 34 | #591 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 21 | #24,842 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 13 | #33,776 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 2 | #180 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Woode mean, and where does it come from?
- Obsolete form of wood. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Woode?
- A machine transcription gives /wʊd/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Woode have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Woode in Ghana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled woode.
- How common is the name Woode?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 34 people named Woode in 2025, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
- How common is Woode compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Woode is the 648th most common surname of 36,883 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/woodeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Woode” — the 648th most common surname in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.