as a Last Name
- 17,024
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Goodson
Meaning & Origins
English (chiefly East Anglia and East Midlands): nickname for a dutiful son, from Middle English gode ‘good’ + sone ‘son’.
| 2,159th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 17,024
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Alabama
- has the most people named Goodson per capita
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