Godoy

12,322 people in the United States were counted with the surname Godoy in the 2020 census, making it the 2,850th most common in the country. That is about one person in 24,300.

By the numbers

People: 12,322
Rank: 2,850th
How common: 1 in 24,300
Per 100,000: 4.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Borrowed from Spanish Godoy, a habitational surname from Galician.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 87.6%
White, not Hispanic 7.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 3.2%
Black, not Hispanic 1.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Godoy

Manuel Godoy (1767–1851)Prime Minister of Spain
Aníbal Godoy (born 1990)Panamanian association football player
Iñaki Godoy (born 2003)Mexican actor
Adán Godoy (1936–2026)Chilean footballer
Maica García Godoy (born 1990)Spanish water polo player
Ricardo Pérez Godoy (1905–1982)47th President of Peru
Armando Robles Godoy (1923–2010)Peruvian-American film director
Rosa Godoy (born 1982)Argentine long-distance runner

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

Surnames like Godoy

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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.