Golden — #2667 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Golden

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,886 babies named Golden between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Golden currently holds the #2667 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 67 babies received it in a single year. Golden is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,247 additional births since 1884.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Golden performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 451 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Golden shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in West Virginia, which accounts for 153 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Golden in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Golden in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,886 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.