The Goodale surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 3,140 people carried this name — #10,265 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 94,300 people counted. That is up 1% from 3,119 in 2000.

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What the name means

The meaning of the Goodale surname

As an English and Welsh surname

Bardsley classes it as a local name, from where the family lived: ‘of Goldale’.

An early record he cites: Villa de Goldale, 1379 — Poll Tax, West Riding of Yorkshire.

From Charles W. Bardsley, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames, with Special American Instances (London: Henry Frowde, 1901), p. 326 · public domain.

In the first U.S. census, 1790

131 families named Goodale, or a close spelling, were counted in 1790.

Each family is counted by its head. About 769 people lived in those households, 5.9 to a family on average. The table counts it together with 5 other spellings. The table lists white heads of families only, in the twelve states whose 1790 records survive; Virginia’s figures come from state lists of 1782–1785.

Families, by state

Massachusetts 57
Connecticut 26
New Hampshire 14
Vermont 12
New York 9
Maine 6
Virginia 4
South Carolina 2
Rhode Island 1

U.S. Census Bureau, «A Century of Population Growth from the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth, 1790–1900» (Washington, 1909), table 111, p. 242 — public domain · names carried by at least 100 white persons in 1790.

In print

Goodale in American newspapers,
1907–1915.

Newspaper page from The Parker Post carrying the name Goodale
The Parker Post 1915-07-24
Newspaper page from The Beatrice Daily Express carrying the name Goodale
The Beatrice Daily Express 1914-08-19
Newspaper page from Evening Times-republican carrying the name Goodale
Evening Times-republican 1907-07-26

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 41,974 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Goodale in Australian newspapers,
1860s–1960s.

798 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Goodale. The most, 229, date from the 1920s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in South Australia, at 4.9 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

South Australia 433
Queensland 174
New South Wales 71
Victoria 67
Western Australia 24
Northern Territory 15
Tasmania 12
ACT (Canberra) 2

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Goodale.

Who carried it

People named Goodale,
with a public archive behind them.

  • George Lincoln Goodale
    George Lincoln Goodale 1839–1923 · physician
  • Samuel Goodale Jr. d. 1769
  • Laura Goodale 1793– · embroiderer
  • Stephen Lincoln Goodale 1815–1897 · agronomist
  • Thomas Jefferson Goodale 1830–1894 · newspaper editor
  • Alfred Shepard Goodale 1876–1951 · university teacher

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Goodale,
in the records of 3 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States365 records

365 records of the Goodale name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 137
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 87
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 56
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 54
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 18
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 10
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 3
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Edwin L. Goodale

    Born 1911 in New Hampshire. Enlisted 1942 at Portland, Maine; welder. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1971, buried at Maine Veterans' Memorial Cemetery, Augusta, Maine.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Thomas Lee Goodale

    Born 1947; from Kansas City, Missouri. U.S. Army, infantryman; killed in action 1968 in Tay Ninh, South Vietnam.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Ths Goodale

    Arrived at New York in 1866 aboard the Helvetia from Liverpool, aged 23; laborer. From Ireland.

    U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)

Showing 3 of 365 records for Goodale in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).

Canada10 records

10 records of the Goodale name in Canada
  • City of Calgary cemetery records 4
  • Canadian Virtual War Memorial 2
  • Nova Scotia Archives name indexes 2
  • City of Winnipeg cemetery records 1
  • War Office casualty lists, 1917–1919, among the dead 1
  1. Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia
    Example: Canadian cemetery
    Burial record Harold Goodale

    Buried in 1983 at Queen's Park Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta, aged 72.

    City of Calgary. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Calgary.
  2. A page of the Berlin civil register, 1880
    Example: civil register, 1880
    Death record Gordon Ross Goodale

    Died 1938 in Port Hawkesbury, Inverness, Nova Scotia.

    Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia.
  3. A Canadian First World War grave register card for a soldier who died of wounds in 1917
    Example: Canadian war grave register, 1917
    War record Walter Henry Goodale

    Died in service in 1918.

    Veterans Affairs Canada. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada.

Showing 3 of 10 records for Goodale in Canada.

Counts: City of Calgary. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Calgary. · Veterans Affairs Canada. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada. · Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia. · City of Winnipeg. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Winnipeg. · National Library of Scotland, War Office Weekly Casualty Lists (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax, photo by Edgar El (CC BY 3.0); Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0); Canadian First World War circumstances-of-death register (scan by Scottgraham87 via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0).

Australia9 records

9 records of the Goodale name in Australia
  • Queensland State Archives indexes 4
  • Victoria wills and probate, deaths to 2001 3
  • Victoria passenger lists, 1839–1923 2
  1. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record William Goodale

    Arrived in Victoria in 1857 aboard the Kent, aged 24; English.

    Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0)
  2. A petition to the probate court of St. Louis, 1848
    Example: probate petition, 1848
    Probate record Jack Brooke Goodale

    Stock agent of Hawthorn, Victoria; died 1971.

    Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0)
  3. A page of the Berlin civil register, 1880
    Example: civil register, 1880
    Civil record Fredrich Goodale

    Leased farmland at Mackay, Queensland in 1895.

    Queensland State Archives (CC BY 4.0)

Showing 3 of 9 records for Goodale in Australia.

Counts: Queensland State Archives (CC BY 4.0) · Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain); Petition to the probate court, St. Louis, 1848, Missouri Historical Society (public domain); Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0).

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