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Goodman

in Michigan

There are 1,883 people with the last name "Goodman" in Michigan.

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Ranking in Michigan

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Goodman 398
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  1. is 394th most common Byrd
  2. is 395th most common Hampton
  3. is 396th most common Cobb
  4. is 397th most common Howe
  5. is 398th most common Goodman
  6. is 399th most common Krueger
  7. is 400th most common Roth
  8. is 401st most common Shelton
  9. is 402nd most common Francis

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Goodman

James, Robert, David, Richard, John, Mark, Michael, William, Thomas, Mary

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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