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Goodman

in West Virginia

There are 267 people with the last name "Goodman" in West Virginia.

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Ranking in West Virginia

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Goodman 1,011
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  1. is 1,007th most common Bradshaw
  2. is 1,008th most common Moses
  3. is 1,009th most common Whittaker
  4. is 1,010th most common Gilkerson
  5. is 1,011th most common Goodman
  6. is 1,012th most common Joseph
  7. is 1,013th most common Slack
  8. is 1,014th most common Whited
  9. is 1,015th most common Bradford

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Goodman

Charles, George, Aaron, Brenda, Deborah, Elmer, James, Kathy, Richard, Ricky

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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