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Goodman

in Indiana

There are 1,731 people with the last name "Goodman" in Indiana.

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Ranking in Indiana

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Goodman 302
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  1. is 298th most common Torres
  2. is 299th most common Cain
  3. is 300th most common Shaffer
  4. is 301st most common Webster
  5. is 302nd most common Goodman
  6. is 303rd most common Rowe
  7. is 304th most common Bowers
  8. is 305th most common Blair
  9. is 306th most common Cummings

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Goodman

Robert, David, Michael, John, James, William, Thomas, Donald, Brian, Richard

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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