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The GOODING surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,795 4770 0.003 25
United States (1880 census) 1,810 3270 0.004 36
Change since 1880 +4985 -1500 -0.001 -11
Other Countries
Australia 637 2536 0.004 39
United Kingdom 3,447 1813 0.008 75
Top States for GOODING by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 526 2246 0.007 65
California 474 6175 0.001 14
Florida 438 4810 0.003 27
New York 409 4942 0.002 22
Ohio 359 4066 0.003 32
Top States for GOODING by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 354 1899 0.009 88
Delaware 53 2712 0.007 68
North Carolina 526 2246 0.007 65
Washington DC 33 1933 0.006 58
Maryland 232 2749 0.004 44

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

Classification and Origin of GOODING

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 158 2.33
White (Hispanic) 132 1.94
Native American/Alaskan 57 0.84
Asian/Pacific 23 0.34
White (Caucasian) 4,857 71.48
Black/African American 1,568 23.08

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

Meaning of GOODING in historical publications

GOODEN. GOODING. GOODINGE. Corruptions of 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 GOODING

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GOODING.

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 GOODING

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