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The GODSEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,756 5545 0.002 21
United States (1880 census) 680 7554 0.001 14
Change since 1880 +5076 +2009 +0.001 +7
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 3 34018 0 0
Top States for GODSEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 725 1326 0.013 127
Virginia 457 2168 0.006 65
Ohio 434 3498 0.004 38
Kentucky 420 1481 0.010 104
Alabama 406 1851 0.009 91
Top States for GODSEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 725 1326 0.013 127
Kentucky 420 1481 0.010 104
Alabama 406 1851 0.009 91
Indiana 400 2094 0.007 66
Virginia 457 2168 0.006 65

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

Classification and Origin of GODSEY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the GODSEY surname.

Ethnic distribution of GODSEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 253 4.4
White (Hispanic) 73 1.27
Mixed Race 59 1.03
Native American/Alaskan 47 0.82
Asian/Pacific 22 0.38
White (Caucasian) 5,302 92.11

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

GODSEY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of GODSEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to GODSEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GODSEY.

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 GODSEY

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