Golda
Golda was given to 65 girls in 2025, #2,665 among girls’ names; 6,430 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,890 Americans named Golda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (29% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 9 and 56.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Golda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Golda mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Golda is “a female given name from Yiddish.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Golda?
#2,665 among girls’ names, 2025
Golda rose from #3,498 in 2015 to #2,665 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 25.2 to 40.4 per million.
158 babies in 1915, the peak
Golda peaked in 1915, when 158 girls were given it, #489 among girls’ names. The 65 births of 2025 are 41% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 65 | #2,665 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 65 | #2,676 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 64 | #2,712 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 58 | #2,909 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 62 | #2,761 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 47 | #3,303 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 53 | #3,060 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,267 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 40 | #3,797 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 40 | #3,806 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (145)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 45 | #3,498 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,301 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,803 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,757 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,171 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,054 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,983 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,339 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,426 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,497 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,492 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,421 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,138 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 24 | #4,955 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,718 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,325 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,294 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,208 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,977 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,225 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,057 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,431 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,685 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,281 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,832 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,633 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,926 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,693 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,528 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,032 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,898 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,384 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,721 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 34 | #2,717 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,360 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,914 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,478 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,762 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,492 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,219 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,263 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,126 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,996 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,889 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,202 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,926 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,171 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,078 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,287 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,049 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,810 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,740 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,359 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,362 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,355 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,279 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,792 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,808 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,198 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 21 | #2,487 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,760 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,386 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,985 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 18 | #2,528 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,174 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 22 | #2,075 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 24 | #1,979 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 20 | #2,208 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 22 | #2,104 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 22 | #1,987 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 27 | #1,603 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 23 | #1,768 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 17 | #2,183 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 31 | #1,486 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 32 | #1,366 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 40 | #1,159 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 47 | #1,042 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 37 | #1,210 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 41 | #1,121 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 57 | #903 | 0.05 |
| 1935 | 63 | #869 | 0.06 |
| 1934 | 55 | #927 | 0.05 |
| 1933 | 28 | #1,380 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 53 | #973 | 0.05 |
| 1931 | 54 | #945 | 0.05 |
| 1930 | 58 | #962 | 0.05 |
| 1929 | 55 | #970 | 0.05 |
| 1928 | 65 | #921 | 0.06 |
| 1927 | 93 | #741 | 0.08 |
| 1926 | 101 | #724 | 0.09 |
| 1925 | 98 | #747 | 0.08 |
| 1924 | 83 | #820 | 0.07 |
| 1923 | 93 | #754 | 0.08 |
| 1922 | 94 | #755 | 0.08 |
| 1921 | 119 | #680 | 0.10 |
| 1920 | 136 | #610 | 0.11 |
| 1919 | 127 | #622 | 0.11 |
| 1918 | 147 | #589 | 0.13 |
| 1917 | 144 | #565 | 0.13 |
| 1916 | 154 | #535 | 0.15 |
| 1915 | 158 | #489 | 0.16 |
| 1914 | 126 | #499 | 0.17 |
| 1913 | 117 | #461 | 0.19 |
| 1912 | 104 | #467 | 0.19 |
| 1911 | 85 | #439 | 0.20 |
| 1910 | 79 | #452 | 0.20 |
| 1909 | 101 | #362 | 0.29 |
| 1908 | 98 | #366 | 0.29 |
| 1907 | 87 | #379 | 0.27 |
| 1906 | 70 | #410 | 0.24 |
| 1905 | 81 | #376 | 0.28 |
| 1904 | 86 | #351 | 0.31 |
| 1903 | 85 | #343 | 0.32 |
| 1902 | 81 | #355 | 0.31 |
| 1901 | 87 | #325 | 0.36 |
| 1900 | 106 | #330 | 0.35 |
| 1899 | 81 | #334 | 0.35 |
| 1898 | 90 | #331 | 0.35 |
| 1897 | 82 | #322 | 0.35 |
| 1896 | 84 | #317 | 0.35 |
| 1895 | 65 | #349 | 0.28 |
| 1894 | 86 | #295 | 0.39 |
| 1893 | 57 | #356 | 0.27 |
| 1892 | 57 | #349 | 0.27 |
| 1891 | 49 | #356 | 0.26 |
| 1890 | 52 | #356 | 0.27 |
| 1889 | 45 | #359 | 0.25 |
| 1888 | 35 | #423 | 0.20 |
| 1887 | 25 | #451 | 0.17 |
| 1886 | 32 | #381 | 0.22 |
| 1885 | 38 | #332 | 0.29 |
| 1884 | 18 | #488 | 0.14 |
| 1883 | 13 | #550 | 0.12 |
| 1882 | 7 | #769 | 0.06 |
| 1880 | 6 | #784 | 0.07 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Golda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Golda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 145 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Golda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Golda, and how old are they?
1,890 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 29% of the 6,430 Americans ever recorded as Golda. The median Golda alive today is 24 years old; half are between 9 and 56.
The 2020 Census counted 1,965 people named Golda (1,954 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,774 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 196 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 223 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 157 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 259 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 414 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 631 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Golda born?
The states with the most babies named Golda are New York, Kentucky and Missouri, with 52% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky and Missouri are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 741 | #664 | 1.9× |
| Kentucky | 293 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Missouri | 225 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Texas | 157 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 127 | #1,485 | 0.5× |
| Oklahoma | 123 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| West Virginia | 114 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| New Jersey | 106 | #683 | 0.8× |
| Arkansas | 92 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 92 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Golda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Golda is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1910 it was given 2.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Golda with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 49,099 babies since 1880, Golda is the second most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 65 of their 628 babies (10%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Golda
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Golda and names like it
- Compare Golda and GoldieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sGolda peaked in 1915.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Golda since 1910.
- The top names of 1915The year the most babies were named Golda.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Golda alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.