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    The surname Goudeau

    A surname, carried by 1,913 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex G300

    Goudeau: #15,328 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Goudeau #15,328, 1,913 people Goudeau: #15,328 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Goudeau #15,328, 1,913 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Goudeau is more common than 90.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,913 people named Goudeau in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 161,393 Americans. That is up 4.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,823.

    #15,328
    rank among US surnames
    1,913
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.9%
    change since 2000 (was #14,890)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #15,322Catano1,915161,225
    #15,325Irick1,914161,309
    #15,328Goudeau1,913161,393

    Who is named Goudeau

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

    47% of people named Goudeau identified as Black (not Hispanic), 44% as white (not Hispanic) and 4.7% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 47%
    • White (not Hispanic) 44%
    • Two or more races 4.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Goudeau

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

    Questions

    How common is the surname Goudeau?
    1,913 people in the United States had the surname Goudeau in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 161,393 Americans. It ranked 15,328th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Goudeau?
    In the 2010 Census, 47% of people named Goudeau identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 44% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Goudeau getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,823 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,913 in 2010, up 4.9%.