Goodness — unisex name

What the Data Says About Goodness

The Social Security Administration has registered 45 babies named Goodness between 2012 and 2022, spanning 11 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Goodness currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 8 babies received it in a single year. Goodness is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 16 additional births since 2018.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Goodness performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 33 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Goodness shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Goodness in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 45 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.