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goodman Name Meaning and History

  1. English: status name from Middle English gode ‘good’ + man ‘man’, in part from use as a term for the master of a household. In Scotland the term denoted a landowner who held his land not directly from the crown but from a feudal vassal of the king.
  2. English: from the Middle English personal name Godeman, Old English Godmann, composed of the elements god ‘good’ or god ‘god’ + mann ‘man’.
  3. English: from the Old English personal name Guðmund, composed of the elements guð ‘battle’ + mund ‘protection’ , or the Old Norse cognate Guðmundr.
  4. Americanized form of Jewish Gutman or German Gutmann.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of goodman Families in the US in 1920
Number of goodman families
 910-1817
 304-909		 1-303
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