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The GOAD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,913 3661 0.003 33
United States (1880 census) 1,304 4360 0.003 26
Change since 1880 +7609 +699 0 +7
Other Countries
Australia 145 10190 0.001 9
United Kingdom 623 7561 0.001 14
Top States for GOAD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 1,433 636 0.020 202
Tennessee 966 963 0.017 170
Texas 634 3748 0.003 30
Oklahoma 611 791 0.018 177
Indiana 456 1776 0.007 75
Top States for GOAD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 1,433 636 0.020 202
Oklahoma 611 791 0.018 177
Tennessee 966 963 0.017 170
Arkansas 304 1242 0.011 114
West Virginia 171 1587 0.009 95

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called GOAD live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called GOAD represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called GOAD in Virginia than any other state, but you are more likely to find a GOAD by picking someone at random in Virginia than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of GOAD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GOAD surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the GOAD surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of GOAD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 186 2.09
White (Hispanic) 142 1.59
Mixed Race 101 1.13
Black/African American 51 0.57
Asian/Pacific 24 0.27
White (Caucasian) 8,409 94.35

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the GOAD surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of GOAD in historical publications

GOAD. Probably Good. A-Sax. god.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to GOAD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GOAD.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for GOAD

The following words are slight variants of GOAD that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.