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Goodman

in Minnesota

There are 591 people with the last name "Goodman" in Minnesota.

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Goodman 674
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  1. is 670th most common Odonnell
  2. is 671st most common Giese
  3. is 672nd most common Ruiz
  4. is 673rd most common Rademacher
  5. is 674th most common Goodman
  6. is 675th most common Nyberg
  7. is 676th most common Lindahl
  8. is 677th most common Hinrichs
  9. is 678th most common Madison

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Goodman

John, James, Robert, Michael, David, Mary, William, Chris, Mark, Christopher

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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