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Goodman

in Tennessee

There are 2,420 people with the last name "Goodman" in Tennessee.

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Ranking in Tennessee

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Goodman 267
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  1. is 263rd most common Day
  2. is 264th most common Harmon
  3. is 265th most common Peters
  4. is 266th most common Barker
  5. is 267th most common Goodman
  6. is 268th most common Martinez
  7. is 269th most common Peterson
  8. is 270th most common Lawrence
  9. is 271st most common Lambert

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Goodman

James, John, David, William, Charles, Robert, Michael, Linda, Mary, Barbara

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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