Woodside
loc · Latin script
Meaning: person from various Scottish places meaning wooded hillside
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Woodside is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 95K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 5.1M
- ESSpain1 in 7.1M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Woodside itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 95K (inferred from the name graph)
3,511 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Вудсайд in RU Russia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
person from various Scottish places meaning wooded hillside
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Woodside 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,511 | 1 in 95K | 3.5K | — | 5 |
| ES Spain | 7 | 1 in 7.1M | 7 | — | — |
| RU Russia | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 132M | — | Вудсайд | 6 |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 274 | — | 2 |
3,511 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Woodside is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, dweller by the wood-side; first attested Robert del Wodsid 1332 SRCu
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, The side of a wood; the land that borders a wood.
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)
- Robert E. Woodsideb. 1904USAmerican politician
- Willson Woodsideb. 1905CACanadian journalist
- Arch G. Woodsideb. 1943USAmerican marketing author, consultant, and academic
- Maxine Woodsideb. 1948MXMexican journalist
- Keith Woodsideb. 1964USAmerican football player
- D. B. Woodsideb. 1969USAmerican actor
- Dennis Woodsideb. 1969USAmerican chief executive
- Ben Woodsideb. 1985USAmerican basketball player
- Logan Woodsideb. 1995USAmerican football player (born 1995)
- Bruce Woodsideanimator
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.5K | #9,273 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.4K | #9,148 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.4K | #8,832 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 274 | #17,411 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #31,490 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Woodside mean, and where does it come from?
- person from various Scottish places meaning wooded hillside Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Woodside have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.5 thousand people named Woodside, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Woodside most common?
- Woodside is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 95 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Woodside?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,511 people named Woodside in 2010, about 1 in 95 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/woodsideThe 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, “Woodside”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.