Goodall

5,042 people in the United States were counted with the surname Goodall in the 2020 census, making it the 6,477th most common in the country. That is about one person in 59,300.

By the numbers

People: 5,042
Rank: 6,477th
How common: 1 in 59,300
Per 100,000: 1.7

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 73.3%
Black, not Hispanic 16.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Goodall

Jane Goodall (1934–2025)English primatologist and anthropologist
Caroline Goodall (born 1959)English actress
David Goodall (1914–2018)British-born Australian botanist and ecologist
John Goodall (1863–1942)English footballer and manager
Howard Goodall (born 1958)English composer and presenter for television and radio
Josh Goodall (born 1985)British tennis player
Lara Goodall (born 1996)cricketer

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

Surnames like Goodall

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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.