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Golda

#2,665 in 2025Girls' name

Gold

Golda has been given to 6,430 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #2,665 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1915, with 158 recorded.

Babies named Golda, 2025

1 in 51,000

Golda over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Golda: meaning, origin, and history

Gold

Yiddish

What Golda means

Golda means “gold”.

Origin, language, and formation

Golda is used in English and Old English. Its origins include Yiddish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Old English, Golda is pronounced /ˈɡol.dɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,430 girls were recorded with the name Golda between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 158 in 1915; its best national rank was #295 in 1894.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,303 in 2020 to #2,665 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,498 in 2015 to #2,665 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Golda?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 51,000
65 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 24,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,665
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
35,353 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Golda sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 35,353 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Golda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Goldas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Golda was born before 1921 — so the typical Golda is around 104 today.

Median birth year
1921
About 104 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
19.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,697
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1910s — 19.3% of all recorded uses (1,241).

Is Golda rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+11
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+638
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+833
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.44×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
41.1%
Peak was 1915 (158)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#295
1894

Spellings of Golda

Golda is not the most common spelling — Lola is, with 18.0% against Golda's 1.2%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Golda is used

Across 1910–2025, Golda was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 49,393 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 10,000
  2. 2West Virginia1 in 14,286
  3. 3Missouri1 in 16,667
  4. 4New York1 in 16,667
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 16,667
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 20,000
  7. 7Kansas1 in 33,333
  8. 8Idaho1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Golda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Golda around the world

Where Golda ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2025
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • France
    1908–2025
    #3,221
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2022
    #2,577
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1948–2003
    #739
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Golda

People whose public names include Golda, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Golda in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Golda. Linked forms have their own page here.

GoldieZahava

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Golda by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,665
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 638
Best rank ever
#295
1894
Peak year
1915
158 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,430
Count in 2025
65

Names similar to Golda

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

GoldyGoldenImeldaZeldaEldaNeldaTildaGoldieVeldaHuldaGildaNildaWildaGoldiaAldaMathildaValdaHildaGriseldaMeldaMildaMatildaAwildaIlda

Names with a curve like Golda

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Golda, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

EraMaybelleCecilOrphaDovieAlphaZulaBlanchArtieVestaVallieTillie

Sibling names for Golda

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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