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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

'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.

Meaning of GOODWIN in historical publications

GOODWIN. The same as Godwin.

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 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.

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

Potential typos for GOODWIN

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