Goodwin
Goodwin is a name with a single cultural origin: English.
- English
Meaning & Origin of Goodwin
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Goodwin is a name with a single cultural origin: English.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- English
The Story of Goodwin
Goodwin first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1911, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1918: 18 births, good for #1,827 nationwide. About 43% of every Goodwin on record arrived during the 1920s, its defining decade. Goodwin last appeared in the published SSA data in 2006, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 256 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1910s to the 2020s.
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About the name Goodwin
Goodwin is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1911 and has accumulated 256 births in the dataset. Goodwin's peak popularity came in 1918 when it ranked #1,827. Use the chart and map above to compare Goodwin's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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