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The GOODNOW surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 972 24180 0 4
United States (1880 census) 678 7565 0.001 14
Change since 1880 +294 -16615 +N/A -10
Other Countries
Australia 2 258894 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GOODNOW by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 150 5127 0.002 24
New York 100 17138 0.001 5
New Hampshire 88 2022 0.007 71
Florida 53 27315 0.000 3
California 51 38563 0.000 2
Top States for GOODNOW by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Hampshire 88 2022 0.007 71
Rhode Island 27 5390 0.003 26
Massachusetts 150 5127 0.002 24
Maine 26 5764 0.002 20
Vermont 12 6649 0.002 20

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

Classification and Origin of GOODNOW

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

Ethnic distribution of GOODNOW in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 929 95.58
White (Hispanic) 16 1.65
Mixed Race 13 1.34
Native American/Alaskan 9 0.93
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of GOODNOW in historical publications

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

Similar names to GOODNOW

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GOODNOW.

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 GOODNOW

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