The GOODNIGHT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,480	8692	0.001	13
United States (1880 census)	681	7534	0.001	14
Change since 1880	+2799	-1158	0	-1
Other Countries
Australia	2	258893	0	0
United Kingdom	4	33028	0	0

Top States for GOODNIGHT by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	492	4332	0.002	24
North Carolina	357	2991	0.004	44
Indiana	324	2355	0.005	53
Oklahoma	288	1639	0.008	83
California	250	10317	0.001	7
Top States for GOODNIGHT by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Oklahoma	288	1639	0.008	83
West Virginia	119	2054	0.007	66
Arkansas	173	2045	0.006	65
Indiana	324	2355	0.005	53
North Carolina	357	2991	0.004	44

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of GOODNIGHT

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

Ethnic distribution of GOODNIGHT in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	205	5.89
White (Hispanic)	62	1.78
Mixed Race	56	1.61
Native American/Alaskan	43	1.24
Asian/Pacific	9	0.26
White (Caucasian)	3,105	89.22

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

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

Similar names to GOODNIGHT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GOODNIGHT.

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.