Goodwin

Goodwin is the 472nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 68,963 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 4,334.

By the numbers

People: 68,963
Rank: 472nd
How common: 1 in 4,334
Per 100,000: 23.1

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

From Old English gōd (“good”) + wine (“friend”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 73.8%
Black, not Hispanic 17.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Goodwin

Ginnifer Goodwin (born 1978)American actress
Craig Goodwin (born 1991)Australian association footballer
Raven Goodwin (born 1992)American actress
Malcolm Goodwin (born 1982)American actor
Doris Kearns Goodwin (born 1943)American biographer and historian
Leo Goodwin (1883–1957)American swimmer
Hannibal Goodwin (1822–1900)American inventor in film development
Carte Goodwin (born 1974)American attorney and politician

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

Surnames like Goodwin

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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.