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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

'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.

Meaning of GOODSON in historical publications

GOODSON. 1. Another form of Godson. 2. The parish of Gooderstone, co. Norfolk, is so called. 3. It corresponds with the French Jicaufils, son-in-law.

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 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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for GOODSON

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