The GOODWIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	70,333	415	0.026	261
United States (1880 census)	20,286	252	0.041	406
Change since 1880	+50047	-163	-0.015	-145
Other Countries
Australia	5,071	277	0.031	310
United Kingdom	20,910	260	0.046	455

Top States for GOODWIN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	4,881	662	0.014	144
Texas	4,845	517	0.023	232
Florida	4,084	455	0.026	256
South Carolina	3,333	152	0.083	831
Alabama	3,022	211	0.068	680
Top States for GOODWIN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	1,431	108	0.112	1,122
South Carolina	3,333	152	0.083	831
New Hampshire	942	112	0.076	762
Alabama	3,022	211	0.068	680
Arkansas	1,284	252	0.048	480

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

Classification and Origin of GOODWIN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	999	1.42
Native American/Alaskan	577	0.82
Asian/Pacific	288	0.41
White (Caucasian)	55,542	78.97
Black/African American	11,830	16.82
Mixed Race	1,090	1.55

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

Similar names to GOODWIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GOODWIN.

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.