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Goodman

in North Carolina

There are 2,904 people with the last name "Goodman" in North Carolina.

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Ranking in North Carolina

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Goodman 323
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  1. is 319th most common Owen
  2. is 320th most common Beasley
  3. is 321st most common Ball
  4. is 322nd most common Bradshaw
  5. is 323rd most common Goodman
  6. is 324th most common Heath
  7. is 325th most common May
  8. is 326th most common Cline
  9. is 327th most common Townsend

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Goodman

James, John, Michael, William, David, Robert, Jerry, Richard, Mary, Jeffrey

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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