Gooding

Gooding is the 5,176th most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,525 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 45,800.

By the numbers

People: 6,525
Rank: 5,176th
How common: 1 in 45,800
Per 100,000: 2.2

Where the name comes from

From the Old English hypocorism Gōding, from gōd (“god”) + -ing (“diminutive suffix”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 68.1%
Black, not Hispanic 22.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Gooding

Cuba Gooding Jr. (born 1968)American actor
Omar Gooding (born 1976)American actor
Mason Gooding (born 1996)American actor
Celia Rose Gooding (born 2000)American actor and singer

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

Surnames like Gooding

Try it on yourself

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.