Goodnews Surname
Approximately 1,799 people bear this surname
Goodnews Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 1,781 | 1:99,463 | 6,776 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Iceland | 2 | 1:190,045 | 6,825 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
Goodnews (18,301) may also be a first name.
Goodnews Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Goodnews Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Goodnews occurs most in Nigeria. It can also appear as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Goodnews? popularity and diffusion
The surname Goodnews is the 225,834th most commonly used last name on a global scale. It is borne by approximately 1 in 4,050,887 people. The last name Goodnews occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Goodnews reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 99 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 40,341st most widespread first name world-wide, borne by 18,301 people.
This last name is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is held by 1,781 people, or 1 in 99,463. In Nigeria Goodnews is most prevalent in: Bayelsa, where 35 percent are found, Rivers, where 31 percent are found and Akwa Ibom, where 8 percent are found. Without taking into account Nigeria this last name occurs in 12 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 0 percent are found and Iceland, where 0 percent are found.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Goodnews
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