Gooding
surname · Latin script
Meaning: present participle and gerund of good
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɡʊdɪŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gooding is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 23K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 42K
- USUnited States1 in 47K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 349 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Grenada
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
present participle and gerund of good
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gooding counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Gooding | 5 |
| US United States | 7,123 | 1 in 47K | 7.1K | Gooding | 349 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Gooding | 178 |
| CA Canada | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Gooding | 128 |
| EG Egypt | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 118K | — | Gooding | 3 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Gooding | 33 |
| GY Guyana | 91 | 1 in 8.2K | 91 | — | 2 |
| GD Grenada | 65 | 1 in 1.7K | 65 | — | 3 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 48 | 1 in 2.1K | 48 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Gooding is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, patronymic from Good.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Frank R. Goodingb. 1859USAmerican politician (1859-1928)
- Cuba Gooding Sr.b. 1944USAmerican singer and actor (1944–2017)
- Mick Goodingb. 1959GBBritish footballer (born 1959)
- Ray Goodingb. 1959GBEnglish footballer (born 1959)
- Cuba Gooding Jr.b. 1968USAmerican actor
- Omar Goodingb. 1976USAmerican actor (born 1976)
- Spencer Goodingb. 1994USAmerican actor
- Mason Goodingb. 1996USAmerican actor
- Celia Rose Goodingb. 2000USAmerican actor and singer
- Ian Goodingproduction designer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.1K | #4,942 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.8K | #4,770 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.5K | #5,176 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 91 | #534 |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 65 | #159 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 48 | #214 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gooding mean, and where does it come from?
- present participle and gerund of good Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Gooding?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡʊdɪŋ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gooding have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Gooding in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gooding.
- Where is Gooding most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gooding is densest in Grenada — about 1 in 1.7 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gooding?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,123 people named Gooding in 2010, about 1 in 47 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Gooding?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/goodingThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gooding”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.