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Goldy

#2,026 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Golda

Goldy has been given to 1,666 babies in the U.S. since 1911. In 2025 it ranked #2,026 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 98 recorded.

Babies named Goldy, 2025

1 in 35,300

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Goldy: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Golda

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Goldy means

Goldy is a diminutive of Golda.

Origin, language, and formation

Goldy is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Golda.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,666 girls were recorded with the name Goldy between 1911 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 98 in 2023; its best national rank was #2,007 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,639 in 2020 to #2,026 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,362 in 2015 to #2,026 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 Goldy?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 35,300
94 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 17,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,026
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
24,447 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Goldy 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 24,447 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Goldy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Goldys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Goldy was born before 2012 — so the typical Goldy is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
28.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,582
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Choose a decade

2020s — 28.8% of all recorded uses (479).

Is Goldy 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
+489
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+613
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,336
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.96×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
95.9%
Peak was 2023 (98)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,007
2023

Spellings of Goldy

Goldy is not the most common spelling — Holly is, with 36.6% against Goldy's 0.30%.

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 Goldy is used

Across 1910–2025, Goldy was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 12,915 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 10,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in —

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. Goldy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Goldy around the world

Where Goldy 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
    1999–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #2,463
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Goldy by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,026
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 613
Best rank ever
#2,007
2023
Peak year
2023
98 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,666
Count in 2025
94

Names similar to Goldy

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

GoldenGoldaGoldiaGolaGoldieZeldyGoldynGoldyeGoldiHildyGoldGolieGoldeGoldineGoldenaGolenaGeraldyGolnazGoldeneYeraldyJeraldyGoldeanGoldina

Sibling names for Goldy

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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