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Goodman

in Iowa

There are 452 people with the last name "Goodman" in Iowa.

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Ranking in Iowa

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Goodman 585
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  1. is 581st most common Rodgers
  2. is 582nd most common Fields
  3. is 583rd most common Link
  4. is 584th most common Eaton
  5. is 585th most common Goodman
  6. is 586th most common Beckman
  7. is 587th most common Grimes
  8. is 588th most common Kraft
  9. is 589th most common Akers

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Goodman

James, John, Mary, William, Charles, Daniel, David, Michael, Richard, Thomas

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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