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The GOODY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 730 30264 0 3
United States (1880 census) 180 20832 0 4
Change since 1880 +550 -9432 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 219 6924 0.001 13
United Kingdom 919 5624 0.002 20
Top States for GOODY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 77 22892 0.000 4
Ohio 70 17394 0.001 6
California 64 32573 0.000 2
Florida 47 31688 0.000 3
Iowa 41 10551 0.001 14
Top States for GOODY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 40 4248 0.003 31
Idaho 32 5470 0.002 25
Wyoming 8 8731 0.002 16
Montana 14 9586 0.002 16
Iowa 41 10551 0.001 14

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

Classification and Origin of GOODY

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 GOODY 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 GOODY 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 GOODY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 600 82.19
Black/African American 76 10.41
White (Hispanic) 39 5.34
Asian/Pacific 7 0.96
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of GOODY in historical publications

GOODY. The third form rather countenances the supposition of a local origin. But it may be from tlie salutation " Goodday !" especially if GOOJUEVE may be considered correlatively.

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 GOODY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GOODY.

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 GOODY

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