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    The surname Goods

    A surname, carried by 1,074 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex G320

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Goods is more common than 85.4% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,074 people named Goods in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 287,473 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,073.

    #23,618
    rank among US surnames
    1,074
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.1%
    change since 2000 (was #22,384)

    Who is named Goods

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

    84% of people named Goods identified as Black (not Hispanic), 11% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.5% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 84%
    • White (not Hispanic) 11%
    • Two or more races 3.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Goods

    Goods has the Soundex code G320, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G320.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Goods?
    1,074 people in the United States had the surname Goods in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 287,473 Americans. It ranked 23,618th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Goods?
    In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Goods identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 11% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Goods getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,073 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,074 in 2010, up 0.1%.