as a Last Name
- 14,909
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Goddard
Meaning & Origins
English (of Norman origin) and French: from Godhard, a personal name composed of the Germanic elements gōd ‘good’ or god, got ‘god’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’. The name was popular in Europe during the Middle Ages as a result of the fame of St. Gotthard, an 11th-century bishop of Hildesheim who founded a hospice on the pass from Switzerland to Italy that bears his name. This surname and the variant Godard are also borne by Ashkenazic Jews, presumably as an Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames.
| 2,101st in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 14,909
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named Goddard per capita
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