The Godoy surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 11,690 people carried this name — #3,070 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 25,300 people counted. That is up 41% from 8,274 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Godoy surname
Borrowed from Spanish Godoy, a habitational surname from Galician.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Godoy» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 131,911 people named Godoy live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
125 people named Godoy live in Switzerland.
They live in 9 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 101 people named Godoy.
Most of them — 63 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 13 départements, most often Rhône.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
53 people named Godoy is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Godoy in American newspapers,
1851–1930.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 5,692 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Godoy,
with a public archive behind them.
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Pedro de Godoy 1608–1677 · bishop -
Manuel Godoy 1767–1851 · military personnel -
Manuel Godoy Agrelo d. 1942 · politician
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Carlos Gabriel Godoy Echegoyen d. 1985 · university student
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Luis Alberto Godoy Sandoval d. 1973 · farmworker
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Gerardo Godoy Bello d. 1973 · laborer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Godoy.
- Godfroy 264 · U.S. census
- Godier 116 · U.S. census
- Godin 3,665 · U.S. census
- Godino 532 · U.S. census
- Godo 190 · U.S. census
- Godon 157 · U.S. census
- Godreau 161 · U.S. census
- Goeb 251 · U.S. census
- Goebel 9,062 · U.S. census
- Goedert 551 · U.S. census
- Goeller 863 · U.S. census
- Goeman 478 · U.S. census
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