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goddard Name Meaning and History

  1. English (of Norman origin) and French: from Godhard, a personal name composed of the Germanic elements god ‘good’ or god, got ‘god’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’. The name was popular in Europe during the Middle Ages as a result of the fame of St. Gotthard, an 11th-century bishop of Hildesheim who founded a hospice on the pass from Switzerland to Italy that bears his name. This surname and the variant Godard are also borne by Ashkenazic Jews, presumably as an Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames.
  2. Possibly also an Americanized spelling of German Gotthard (see Gothard).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of goddard Families in the US in 1920
Number of goddard families
 126-250
 43-125		 1-42
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Goddard Lauren Co. South Carolina to Fayette Co. Alabama Natalie_Rosburg 3
Carrie Goddard Cyndeevan 1
H. GODDARD Biography, b. 1836 MA to WI RMunns7272 0
Bethel Leroy GODDARD, from Wisconsin kspence1_1 0
Goddards-Mass. to Ohio/Headstone Photos Steve Bowers 7
John L. Goddard barbara 11
Goddards from the North of England Radar Goddard 5
Goddards in Illinois, Missouri Jason Goddard 15
Unknown Goddard from 1960 lunarfault 1
A. M. (Milton) Goddard - Iowa ~1830-1883 Christopher Goddard 3
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