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I like the name Woodrow. I like the soothing folksy sound of it. I don't care for Woody, but some guys could wear it well, and Woods is pretty cool too. I don't think I could use the name myself, just because it's sort of cold feeling to me.

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This is my response to queenv's opinion. I'm posting it to you instead, because I don't want to argue with her opinion exactly - it's her opinion. I want to explain why my opinion differs, though.

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There have only been, oh, maybe thirty or forty thousand other Woodrows since Wilson in the US... people are about as likely to have run across a Woodrow (Woody Harrelson? Woody Guthrie? off the top of my head) other than Wilson, as they are to have encountered an Orville, a Dewey, or a Dallas. So, not exactly a one-person name anymore, IMO. It's a surname name that became a first name - past tense. Already happened. Like Cleveland. Like Truman (Capote, plus Harry). Anyway IMO Wilson isn't generally remembered for being a racist, nor for being a Southerner for that matter. I'll buy that he and his name are nerdy, and that the name retains some air of his era and 'progressive' politics.

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Woodrow Alister
Woodrow Tabor
Woodrow Vivian
Woodrow Ramsey
Woodrow Alden
??

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- mirfak