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Goodman

in Virginia

There are 2,178 people with the last name "Goodman" in Virginia.

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Ranking in Virginia

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Goodman 315
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  1. is 311th most common Wolfe
  2. is 312th most common Short
  3. is 313th most common Obrien
  4. is 314th most common Harmon
  5. is 315th most common Goodman
  6. is 316th most common Torres
  7. is 317th most common Jefferson
  8. is 318th most common Owen
  9. is 319th most common Jacobs

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Goodman

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

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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