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The GOODRUM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,606 11166 0.001 10
United States (1880 census) 424 10988 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +2182 -178 0 +2
Other Countries
Australia 50 25544 0 3
United Kingdom 911 5665 0.002 20
Top States for GOODRUM by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 475 4634 0.002 23
Georgia 323 2999 0.004 39
Tennessee 223 3475 0.004 39
California 156 16108 0.000 5
North Carolina 144 5692 0.002 18
Top States for GOODRUM by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 323 2999 0.004 39
Tennessee 223 3475 0.004 39
New Hampshire 43 4103 0.003 35
Texas 475 4634 0.002 23
Vermont 13 6650 0.002 21

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

Classification and Origin of GOODRUM

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 822 31.54
White (Hispanic) 41 1.57
Mixed Race 40 1.53
White (Caucasian) 1,694 65
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of GOODRUM in historical publications

GOODRUM. A probable corruption of the Scandinavian name Guthrum.

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 GOODRUM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GOODRUM.

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 GOODRUM

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