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    The surname Goodsell

    An English nickname surname, carried by 2,113 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex G324

    Goodsell: #14,208 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Goodsell #14,208, 2,113 people Goodsell: #14,208 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Goodsell #14,208, 2,113 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Goodsell is more common than 91.2% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    A nickname from Middle English good (“good”) + saule (“soul”).

    Goodsell is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,113 people named Goodsell in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 146,117 Americans. That is up 2.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,054.

    #14,208
    rank among US surnames
    2,113
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.9%
    change since 2000 (was #13,560)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #14,201Neher2,114146,048
    #14,208Sprayberry2,113146,117
    #14,213Fodor2,112146,186
    #14,215Cruickshank2,111146,256

    Who is named Goodsell

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

    91% of people named Goodsell identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.4% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

    • White (not Hispanic) 91%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 2.4%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Goodsall

    Surnames that sound like Goodsell

    Goodsell has the Soundex code G324, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G324.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Goodsell come from?
    A nickname from Middle English good (“good”) + saule (“soul”).
    How common is the surname Goodsell?
    2,113 people in the United States had the surname Goodsell in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 146,117 Americans. It ranked 14,208th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Goodsell?
    In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Goodsell identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Goodsell?
    Goodsell is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
    Is the surname Goodsell getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,054 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,113 in 2010, up 2.9%.
    What are other spellings of Goodsell?
    Goodsall.