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The GOOD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 34,430 929 0.013 128
United States (1880 census) 9,598 629 0.019 192
Change since 1880 +24832 -300 -0.006 -64
Other Countries
Australia 1,127 1462 0.007 69
United Kingdom 4,243 1488 0.009 92
Top States for GOOD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 4,848 207 0.039 395
Ohio 2,633 447 0.023 232
California 2,355 1384 0.007 70
Virginia 2,043 387 0.029 289
Michigan 1,718 557 0.017 173
Top States for GOOD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 4,848 207 0.039 395
Wyoming 192 226 0.039 389
Virginia 2,043 387 0.029 289
West Virginia 460 583 0.025 254
Montana 214 406 0.024 237

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

Classification and Origin of GOOD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 506 1.47
Mixed Race 406 1.18
Asian/Pacific 165 0.48
Native American/Alaskan 151 0.44
White (Caucasian) 31,435 91.3
Black/African American 1,759 5.11

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

Meaning of GOOD in historical publications

GOOD. From excellence of character, like the F'-. Le Eon.

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 GOOD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GOOD.

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 GOOD

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