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    The surname Goede

    A surname, carried by 723 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex G300

    Goede: #31,906 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Goede #31,906, 723 people Goede: #31,906 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Goede #31,906, 723 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Goede is more common than 80.3% of them.

    Origin

    * As a Dutch and north German surname, from personal names formed from the morphemes goed (“good”) and god (“god”), similar to the first element of Gottfried. * Also as a German surname, from the city Göda in Bautzen. * Also as a German surname, Germanized from Lower Sorbian Goda, a short form of the old Slavic name Godislav, comprised of Proto-Slavic *goditi (“to please”) + *slava (“fame”).

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 723 people named Goede in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 427,034 Americans. That is down 0.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 727.

    #31,906
    rank among US surnames
    723
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.6%
    change since 2000 (was #30,352)

    Who is named Goede

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

    94% of people named Goede identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.5%
    • Two or more races 0.8%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Goede

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

    Questions

    Where does the surname Goede come from?
    * As a Dutch and north German surname, from personal names formed from the morphemes goed (“good”) and god (“god”), similar to the first element of Gottfried. * Also as a German surname, from the city Göda in Bautzen. * Also as a German surname, Germanized from Lower Sorbian Goda, a short form of…
    How common is the surname Goede?
    723 people in the United States had the surname Goede in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 427,034 Americans. It ranked 31,906th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Goede?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Goede identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Goede getting more or less common?
    Less common. 727 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 723 in 2010, down 0.6%.