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The GOODVIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 129 123314 0 0
United States (1880 census) 7 94554 0 0
Change since 1880 +122 -28760 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 3 186900 0 0
United Kingdom 12 30153 0 0
Top States for GOODVIN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 40 11438 0.001 14
Kansas 19 15760 0.001 7
Illinois 12 93514 0.000 1
Arizona 11 45997 0.000 2
Colorado 9 48972 0.000 2
Top States for GOODVIN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 40 11438 0.001 14
Wyoming 5 14358 0.001 10
South Dakota 6 17431 0.001 8
Kansas 19 15760 0.001 7
North Dakota 2 24318 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of GOODVIN

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the GOODVIN surname.

Ethnic distribution of GOODVIN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 121 93.8
Black/African American 6 4.65
Asian/Pacific None reported 0
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

GOODVIN is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of GOODVIN in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of GOODVIN.

Similar names to GOODVIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GOODVIN.

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 GOODVIN

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