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Goodman

in California

There are 4,936 people with the last name "Goodman" in California.

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Goodman 508
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  1. is 504th most common Melendez
  2. is 505th most common Brewer
  3. is 506th most common Do
  4. is 507th most common Dawson
  5. is 508th most common Goodman
  6. is 509th most common Barron
  7. is 510th most common Sosa
  8. is 511th most common Barrios
  9. is 512th most common Casillas

Similar Names and Nicknames

Goodwin, Good, Goode, Goodrich, Goodson, Gooden, Gooding, Goodin, Goodall, Goodell

Most Common First Names for Goodman

Michael, David, Robert, John, Richard, William, Gary, James, Charles, Mark

Meaning & History

English: status name from Middle English gode ‘good’ + man ‘man’, in part from use as a term for the master of a household. In Scotland the term denoted a landowner who held his land not directly from the crown but from a feudal vassal of the king.

English: from the Middle English personal name Godeman, Old English Gōdmann, composed of the elements gōd ‘good’ or god ‘god’ + mann ‘man’.

English: from the Old English personal name Gūðmund, composed of the elements gūð ‘battle’ + mund ‘protection’, or the Old Norse cognate Guðmundr.

Americanized form of Jewish Gutman or German Gutmann.

FOREBEARS This name was brought independently to New England by many bearers from the 17th century onward. Richard Goodman was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, (coming from Cambridge, MA, with Thomas Hooker) in 1635.

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