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    The surname Goad

    A surname, carried by 9,062 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex G300

    Goad: #3,920 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Goad #3,920, 9,062 people Goad: #3,920 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Goad #3,920, 9,062 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Goad is more common than 97.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 9,062 people named Goad in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 34,070 Americans. That is up 1.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 8,913.

    #3,920
    rank among US surnames
    9,062
    people in 2010
    3.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.7%
    change since 2000 (was #3,661)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #3,917Kovacs9,07234,033
    #3,918Davey9,07134,037
    #3,919Redden9,06734,052
    #3,920Goad9,06234,070

    Who is named Goad

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    94% of people named Goad identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.8%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Goad

    Goad has the Soundex code G300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G300.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Goad?
    9,062 people in the United States had the surname Goad in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 34,070 Americans. It ranked 3,920th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Goad?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Goad identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Goad getting more or less common?
    More common. 8,913 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,062 in 2010, up 1.7%.