as a Last Name
- 81,126
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Goodman
Meaning & Origins
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.
| 393rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 81,126
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Tennessee
- has the most people named Goodman per capita
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