Goody

See also: goody

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English Godeve (female given name), from Old English Godġifu (female given name), from god +‎ ġifu. Doublet of Godiva.

Proper noun

Goody (countable and uncountable, plural Goodys)

  1. A surname from Old English.
    • 2025 February 10, Debra Cassens Weiss, “No. 42 law firm by head count sanctioned over fake case citations generated by AI”, in ABA Journal‎[1]:
      Rankin sanctioned Ayala $3,000 and kicked him off the lawsuit after the lawyer admitted incorporating the hallucinated AI-generated cases in the brief. Morgan and Goody were sanctioned $1,000 each.
  2. A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  3. An unincorporated community in Pike County, Kentucky, United States.

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Statistics

  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Goody is the 31960th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 722 individuals. Goody is most common among White (79.64%) and Black/African American (11.91%) individuals.

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