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Goodman

in Pennsylvania

There are 2,350 people with the last name "Goodman" in Pennsylvania.

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Ranking in Pennsylvania

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Goodman 369
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  1. is 365th most common Oliver
  2. is 366th most common Shultz
  3. is 367th most common Lawson
  4. is 368th most common Mullen
  5. is 369th most common Goodman
  6. is 370th most common Patton
  7. is 371st most common Cummings
  8. is 372nd most common Saunders
  9. is 373rd most common Kern

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Goodman

David, Robert, William, Michael, Richard, John, James, Joseph, Mark, Gary

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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