Goddard

14,774 people in the United States were counted with the surname Goddard in the 2020 census, making it the 2,406th most common in the country. That is about one person in 20,200.

By the numbers

People: 14,774
Rank: 2,406th
How common: 1 in 20,200
Per 100,000: 4.9

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

As an English surname of Norman origin, name of a 10th-11th-century German saint, from Old High German got (“God”) + harti, herti (“hard, strong”). Brought to England by Normans. Compare Gothard, Godard.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Goddard described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 82.8%
Black, not Hispanic 7.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Goddard

Robert H. Goddard (1882–1945)American physicist
Paulette Goddard (1910–1990)American actress
Drew Goddard (born 1975)American writer and director
Trevor Goddard (1962–2003)English boxer and actor
Beverley Goddard (born 1956)British athlete
Neville Goddard (1905–1972)Barbadian writer
Samuel Pearson Goddard Jr. (1919–2006)Governor of Arizona, 1965-1967
Mark Goddard (1936–2023)American actor

People named Goddard with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Goddard

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.