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Goodman

in New Jersey

There are 1,537 people with the last name "Goodman" in New Jersey.

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Ranking in New Jersey

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Goodman 370
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  1. is 366th most common Charles
  2. is 367th most common Feldman
  3. is 368th most common Alvarado
  4. is 369th most common Barry
  5. is 370th most common Goodman
  6. is 371st most common Ferrara
  7. is 372nd most common Mann
  8. is 373rd most common Little
  9. is 374th most common Leon

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Goodman

Robert, David, Michael, Richard, William, Mark, James, Steven, Susan, Michelle

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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