Goodman

Goodman is the 469th most common surname in the United States, shared by 69,577 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 4,296.

By the numbers

People: 69,577
Rank: 469th
How common: 1 in 4,296
Per 100,000: 23.3

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 75.7%
Black, not Hispanic 15.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Goodman

John Goodman (born 1952)American actor
Benny Goodman (1909–1986)American jazz clarinetist and bandleader
Amy Goodman (born 1957)American journalist
Nelson Goodman (1906–1998)American philosopher
Paul Goodman (1911–1972)American writer and public intellectual
Don Goodman (born 1966)English association football player
Carolyn Goodman (born 1938)American politician
Owen Goodman (born 2003)Canadian soccer player

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

Surnames like Goodman

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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.