Unisex name · since 1919
Gold
28 babies named Gold in U.S. Social Security records since 1919, with the highest year being 2020. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #41,733 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,090 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 28
- born since 1919
- 2020s
- peak decade
28 babies have been named Gold since 1919, making it today's #15090 unisex name.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Gold has been recorded 28 times among girls since 1919, currently ranked #15090 nationally and more common than 13% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1919 to 2025.
- #41,733 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #15,090 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 28 born since 1919
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Gold ranks #41,733 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #15,090 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 28 born since 1919, peaking in the 2020s.
- #41,733 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,090 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 28
- born since 1919
- 2020s
- peak decade
Gold's 28 recorded births place it above 41.88% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Gold compares
28 10th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Gold's all-time total is 93% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Gold | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 28 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 7 | 21 | 19,840 |
Gold's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Gold splits its recorded history at 2020: 64% of all births land in the more recent half, 36% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 1919 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2020 peak of 7 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Gold popularity over time - girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1919–2025
- Peak year (2020)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 107 years of records
Gold popularity over time - boys
16 total births recorded since 1920 (Gold as boys' name)
Gold by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (18 births, 64% of the file).
2020s was Gold's strongest decade.
18 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 64% of all-time use.
Gold births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1910s 5
1910s
5 births
- 2010s 5
2010s
5 births
- 2020s
2020s
18 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 18 births (64% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Gold: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1919–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Gold draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.