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The GOODRICH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 19,399 1692 0.007 72
United States (1880 census) 8,259 729 0.017 165
Change since 1880 +11140 -963 -0.01 -93
Other Countries
Australia 307 5087 0.002 19
United Kingdom 622 7580 0.001 14
Top States for GOODRICH by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,676 1959 0.005 49
Michigan 1,421 732 0.014 143
New York 1,309 1416 0.007 69
Florida 1,195 1756 0.007 75
Texas 868 2696 0.004 42
Top States for GOODRICH by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 429 139 0.070 705
Maine 320 823 0.025 251
Utah 524 535 0.023 235
New Hampshire 241 802 0.020 195
Wyoming 80 681 0.016 162

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

Classification and Origin of GOODRICH

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GOODRICH 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 GOODRICH 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 GOODRICH in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 888 4.58
White (Hispanic) 307 1.58
Mixed Race 256 1.32
Native American/Alaskan 147 0.76
Asian/Pacific 83 0.43
White (Caucasian) 17,717 91.33

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

Meaning of GOODRICH in historical publications

(origin: Saxon.) Goderick, from God, God or good, and ric, rich; rich in God, or in goodness.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


GOODRICH. 1. A parish in oo. Hereford. 2. See Goodrick.

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 GOODRICH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GOODRICH.

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.

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Potential typos for GOODRICH

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