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Goodman

in the US

There are 60,065 people with the last name "Goodman" in the United States.

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Ranking in the US

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Goodman 379
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  1. is 375th most common Oconnor
  2. is 376th most common Francis
  3. is 377th most common Fitzgerald
  4. is 378th most common Wolf
  5. is 379th most common Goodman
  6. is 380th most common Garner
  7. is 381st most common Manning
  8. is 382nd most common Rodgers
  9. is 383rd most common Valdez

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Goodman

Robert, James, David, John, Michael, William, Richard, Mary, Charles, Mark

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.

Recent Searches for "Goodman" in the US

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Robert Goodman (788 searches)
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