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The GOODENOW surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 636 33782 0 2
United States (1880 census) 206 18866 0 4
Change since 1880 +430 -14916 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GOODENOW by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 71 23210 0.000 4
Maine 66 2792 0.005 52
Michigan 59 19029 0.001 6
Florida 52 27314 0.000 3
Pennsylvania 49 25520 0.000 4
Top States for GOODENOW by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 66 2792 0.005 52
Iowa 36 11144 0.001 12
Kansas 17 15757 0.001 6
Michigan 59 19029 0.001 6
Colorado 25 18434 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of GOODENOW

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

Ethnic distribution of GOODENOW in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 618 97.17
White (Hispanic) 9 1.42
Asian/Pacific 5 0.79
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

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

Meaning of GOODENOW in historical publications

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

Similar names to GOODENOW

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GOODENOW.

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 GOODENOW

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