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Goodman

in Massachusetts

There are 1,173 people with the last name "Goodman" in Massachusetts.

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Ranking in Massachusetts

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Goodman 578
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  1. is 574th most common Corcoran
  2. is 575th most common Hutchinson
  3. is 576th most common Blair
  4. is 577th most common Connelly
  5. is 578th most common Goodman
  6. is 579th most common Fowler
  7. is 580th most common Graves
  8. is 581st most common Monahan
  9. is 582nd most common Fletcher

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Goodman

Robert, David, Michael, Mark, John, Jeffrey, Barbara, James, Alan, Andrew

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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