The GOODSELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,054	13560	0.001	8
United States (1880 census)	866	6144	0.002	17
Change since 1880	+1188	-7416	-0.001	-9
Other Countries
Australia	401	3942	0.002	25
United Kingdom	735	6671	0.002	16

Top States for GOODSELL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	225	1458	0.010	101
New York	194	10589	0.001	10
California	183	14464	0.001	5
Michigan	123	10976	0.001	12
Minnesota	92	8974	0.002	19
Top States for GOODSELL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	225	1458	0.010	101
South Dakota	34	4145	0.005	45
Idaho	55	3619	0.004	43
New Hampshire	50	3747	0.004	40
Montana	35	4193	0.004	39

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

Classification and Origin of GOODSELL

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 GOODSELL 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 GOODSELL 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 GOODSELL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	41	2
White (Hispanic)	41	2
Mixed Race	26	1.27
Black/African American	11	0.54
Asian/Pacific	9	0.44
White (Caucasian)	1,926	93.77

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

Similar names to GOODSELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GOODSELL.

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.