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    The surname Goodlow

    A surname, carried by 1,356 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex G340

    Goodlow: #19,823 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Goodlow #19,823, 1,356 people Goodlow: #19,823 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Goodlow #19,823, 1,356 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Goodlow is more common than 87.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,356 people named Goodlow in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 227,688 Americans. That is up 7.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,265.

    #19,823
    rank among US surnames
    1,356
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +7.2%
    change since 2000 (was #19,710)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #19,814Eckler1,357227,521
    #19,823Zaki1,356227,688

    Who is named Goodlow

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

    79% of people named Goodlow identified as Black (not Hispanic), 12% as white (not Hispanic) and 5.1% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 79%
    • White (not Hispanic) 12%
    • Two or more races 5.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 2.4%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Hispanic, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Goodlow

    Goodlow has the Soundex code G340, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G340.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Goodlow?
    1,356 people in the United States had the surname Goodlow in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 227,688 Americans. It ranked 19,823rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Goodlow?
    In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Goodlow identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 12% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Goodlow getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,265 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,356 in 2010, up 7.2%.