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There have been several previous HN discussions about him and his work: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... You have to scroll back through the flurry from today of course.

I have a feeling that the name is a variant of the much more common "Goodnow", but can't remember where I got that notion.

You can see here

the number of people in the US Census with that surname.

1,656

If you've seen the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons, the antagonist Boris Badenov's name is a joke on Boris Godunov:

Not so rare perhaps. London has a Goodenough College, presumably named after someone by that name.

Last name became a necessity when governments introduced personal taxation(the Poll Tax).

I used to live near a Goodnuff funeral home.

I live near "Dick Witham's Used Cars"! So there are plenty of unusual surnames around.

Really!