Golde

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Golde has been given to 15 babies in the U.S. since 1896. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1896, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Golde, 1915

1 in 366,000

Golde over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Golde: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Golde means

Golde is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Golde is used in Old English.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Old English, Golde is pronounced /ˈɡol.de/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 15 girls were recorded with the name Golde between 1896 and 1915. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1896; its best national rank was #1,676 in 1896.

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.

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How common is Golde?

Golde had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1915, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1915: 1 in 366,000; 5 of 1,832,372 births
Among girls only: 1 in 197,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1915: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 254,022 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Golde 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 1915 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 254,022 children born in 1915 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Golde. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Goldes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Golde was born before 1914 — so the typical Golde is around 111 today.

Median birth year: 1914; About 111 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 66.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 66.7% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Golde 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1896 (5)
Years since peak: 129; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Very steady; 0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,676; 1896

Spellings of Golde

Golde is not the most common spelling — Goldie is, with 38.3% against Golde's 0.01%.

Goldie38.3%38,553
Gale19.8%19,906
Jolie14.0%14,099
Gilda10.0%10,078
Golda6.4%6,430
Jolee3.9%3,897
Golden2.3%2,292
Goldia1.8%1,860

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.

Golde by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #1,676; 1896
Peak year: 1896; 5 that year
First recorded: 1896
Last recorded: 1915
All-time count: 15
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Golde

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

Goldi Gold Wilde Golie Goldyn Golena Golnaz Goldene Goldena Wylde Goldean Goldine Goldina Goldye Benilde Hilde Goldy Gola Alvilde Isolde Golden Golda Goldia Matilde

Sibling names for Golde

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

For a sister

Hulda Meta Bess Lulu Maud Maude Lauretta Era

For a brother

Dewey Will Waldo Orrin Grover Garfield Winfield Dorsey

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