Last Name GOODY

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Meaning The son of Goday, an early first name, one of the many compounds of 'god' or 'good.' Also, 'the son of Gode,' a favourite girl's name in the 13th and 14th centuries.
Origin English

Rank 30,264 (2000 US census) 27,643 (1990 US census)
Count 730 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 82.19%, or 600 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 10.41%, or 76 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.96%, or 7 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • undisclosed % as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • undisclosed % as two or more races, and
  • 5.34%, or 39 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


English surnames

 English surnames can be divided into five classes: Baptisimal or Personal (first) names, local, official, and occupative surnames. Nicknames represent the last class. Practically there are only four classes, for it is often hard ti distinguish between occupation and offic...

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

 Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

Shortest baby names

 We analyzed the first names reported in the United States starting from the year 1880. There were no one character names. We did find 10 two character names.

Please, send us any information you may have about addition two character first names and especially ...

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