The GOODSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	15,229	2191	0.006	56
United States (1880 census)	2,405	2531	0.005	48
Change since 1880	+12824	+340	+0.001	+8
Other Countries
Australia	175	8504	0.001	11
United Kingdom	1,618	3518	0.004	35

Top States for GOODSON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	1,727	1494	0.008	83
North Carolina	1,341	923	0.017	167
Florida	1,225	1748	0.008	77
Alabama	1,028	762	0.023	231
Georgia	926	1194	0.011	113
Top States for GOODSON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	1,028	762	0.023	231
South Carolina	750	904	0.019	187
Arkansas	457	797	0.017	171
North Carolina	1,341	923	0.017	167
Oklahoma	474	1041	0.014	137

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

Classification and Origin of GOODSON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	260	1.71
White (Hispanic)	224	1.47
Native American/Alaskan	110	0.72
Asian/Pacific	53	0.35
White (Caucasian)	11,099	72.88
Black/African American	3,483	22.87

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

Similar names to GOODSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GOODSON.

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.