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    The surname Goodwill

    A surname, carried by 1,498 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex G340

    Goodwill: #18,467 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Goodwill #18,467, 1,498 people Goodwill: #18,467 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Goodwill #18,467, 1,498 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Goodwill is more common than 88.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,498 people named Goodwill in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 206,105 Americans. That is up 2.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,459.

    #18,467
    rank among US surnames
    1,498
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.7%
    change since 2000 (was #17,710)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #18,467Sciacca1,498206,105
    #18,474Longnecker1,497206,243

    Who is named Goodwill

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

    76% of people named Goodwill identified as white (not Hispanic), 17% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 76%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 17%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Goodwill

    Goodwill 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 Goodwill?
    1,498 people in the United States had the surname Goodwill in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 206,105 Americans. It ranked 18,467th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Goodwill?
    In the 2010 Census, 76% of people named Goodwill identified as white (not Hispanic), and 17% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Goodwill getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,459 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,498 in 2010, up 2.7%.