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The GODKIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 391 50261 0 1
United States (1880 census) 71 39603 0 1
Change since 1880 +320 -10658 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 144 10261 0.001 9
United Kingdom 120 22129 0 3
Top States for GODKIN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 70 18698 0.000 3
New York 68 24193 0.000 4
California 60 33046 0.000 2
Wisconsin 21 34023 0.000 4
Nebraska 17 13896 0.001 10
Top States for GODKIN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 14 6433 0.002 22
South Dakota 10 10697 0.001 13
Nebraska 17 13896 0.001 10
New Hampshire 7 17736 0.001 6
Nevada 10 19391 0.001 5

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

Classification and Origin of GODKIN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Diminutive

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GODKIN 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 GODKIN 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 GODKIN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 361 92.33
White (Hispanic) 13 3.32
Asian/Pacific 10 2.56
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0

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

Meaning of GODKIN in historical publications

GODKIN. Perhaps a diminutive oath; or it may be a nickname of Godfrey or Godwin.

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 GODKIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GODKIN.

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 GODKIN

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