Good

34,414 people in the United States were counted with the surname Good in the 2020 census, making it the 996th most common in the country. That is about one person in 8,685.

By the numbers

People: 34,414
Rank: 996th
How common: 1 in 8,685
Per 100,000: 11.5

Where the name comes from

As an English surname, from the adjective good.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.9%
Black, not Hispanic 5.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Good

Magnus the Good (1024–1047)King of Norway and Denmark
Meagan Good (born 1981)American actress and producer
Michael T. Good (born 1962)American astronaut
I. J. Good (1916–2009)British statistician and cryptographer
Curtis Good (born 1993)Australian association football player
Mary L. Good (1931–2019)American chemist
Matthew Good (born 1971)Canadian musician
James William Good (1866–1929)American politician

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

Surnames like Good

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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.