Toogood
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From a medieval nickname for an exceptionally excellent person
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈtuˌɡʊd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Toogood is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- AUAustralia
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From a medieval nickname for an exceptionally excellent person.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)Toogood is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, adjectival nickname ‘too good’; first attested Richard, Robert Togod 1200 P (L)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, exceedingly + gode Good, perhaps ironic in application. Vars.: Towgood, Tugwood. Var.: Talmachev. Cogns. (occupational): Ger. (of Slav, origin): Dolmetsch. Jew¬ ish: Tolmatcz (E Ashkenazic); Talmaciu, Talmacio (among Rumanian Jews); To(u)rgeman, Torjman, Tourjeman, Turg(e)man (Arabic).
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, A surname transferred from the nickname.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Selwyn Toogoodb. 1916NZNew Zealand broadcaster (1916–2001)
- Ted Toogoodb. 1924CACanadian football player (1924-2011)
- Peter Toogoodb. 1930AUAustralian golfer
- Gayle Toogoodb. 1950AUAustralian rower
- Victoria Toogoodb. 1950AUAustralian rower
- Jon Toogoodb. 1971NZNew Zealand musician
- Faye Toogoodb. 1977GBBritish artist and designer
- Laura Toogoodb. 1984GBBritish journalist
- Bonnie Toogoodb. 1997AUAustralian rules footballer
- Matthew ToogoodAUartist
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 2.2K | #3,367 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 556 | #42,060 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 529 | #41,164 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 470 | #43,290 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 8 | #59,366 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #127,089 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #294,296 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3 | #78,288 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #395,724 |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Toogood mean, and where does it come from?
- From a medieval nickname for an exceptionally excellent person. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Toogood?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtuˌɡʊd/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Toogood have the most bearers?
- Toogood is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
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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, “Toogood”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.