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The GODBEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,312 12330 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 102 31027 0 2
Change since 1880 +2210 +18697 +N/A +7
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 2 34596 0 0
Top States for GODBEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 362 1573 0.009 90
Texas 212 8533 0.001 10
West Virginia 193 1351 0.011 107
Ohio 163 8137 0.001 14
North Carolina 150 5400 0.002 19
Top States for GODBEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 193 1351 0.011 107
Kentucky 362 1573 0.009 90
Indiana 126 5932 0.002 21
North Carolina 150 5400 0.002 19
Montana 16 8881 0.002 18

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

Classification and Origin of GODBEY

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GODBEY 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.

Ethnic distribution of GODBEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 33 1.43
Black/African American 29 1.25
White (Hispanic) 25 1.08
Asian/Pacific 16 0.69
Native American/Alaskan 11 0.48
White (Caucasian) 2,198 95.07

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

Meaning of GODBEY in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of GODBEY.

Similar names to GODBEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GODBEY.

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 GODBEY

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