as a Last Name
- 4,785
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Goodall
Meaning & Origins
English (chiefly Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire): 1. habitational name from Gowdall in East Yorkshire, named from Old English golde ‘marigold’ + Old English halh ‘nook’, ‘recess’. 2. from Middle English gode ‘good’ + ale ‘ale’, ‘malt liquor’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a brewer or an innkeeper.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 4,785
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named Goodall per capita
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