Goldy
Goldy was given to 94 girls in 2025, #2,026 among girls’ names; 1,666 Americans have been recorded with it since 1911 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,560 Americans named Goldy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 5 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Goldy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Goldy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Goldy is “a diminutive of the female given name Golda.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Goldy?
#2,026 among girls’ names, 2025
Goldy rose from #3,362 in 2015 to #2,026 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 26.9 to 58.5 per million.
98 babies in 2023, the peak
Goldy peaked in 2023, when 98 girls were given it, #2,007 among girls’ names. The 94 births of 2025 are 96% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 94 | #2,026 | 58.5 |
| 2024 | 71 | #2,515 | 43.8 |
| 2023 | 98 | #2,007 | 61.1 |
| 2022 | 81 | #2,303 | 49.4 |
| 2021 | 71 | #2,494 | 43.3 |
| 2020 | 64 | #2,639 | 39.6 |
| 2019 | 51 | #3,140 | 30.4 |
| 2018 | 62 | #2,762 | 36.4 |
| 2017 | 56 | #2,945 | 32.4 |
| 2016 | 45 | #3,487 | 25.4 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 48 | #3,362 | 26.9 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,940 | 15.7 |
| 2013 | 45 | #3,488 | 25.6 |
| 2012 | 38 | #4,011 | 21.6 |
| 2011 | 50 | #3,284 | 28.4 |
| 2010 | 42 | #3,705 | 23.6 |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,695 | 23.4 |
| 2008 | 40 | #3,956 | 21.2 |
| 2007 | 42 | #3,810 | 21.8 |
| 2006 | 48 | #3,382 | 25.2 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,621 | 15.7 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,853 | 14.7 |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,339 | 16.4 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,421 | 15.6 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,736 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 29 | #4,218 | 16.0 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,623 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,209 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,479 | 10.3 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,643 | 12.5 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,256 | 13.6 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,532 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,054 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,782 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,580 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,591 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,369 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,812 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,464 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,543 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,987 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,899 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,606 | 3.5 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,481 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,731 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,908 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,096 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,734 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,551 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,149 | 4.8 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,701 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,422 | 2.4 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,869 | 4.5 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,004 | 4.3 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,798 | 6.4 |
| 1922 | 10 | #3,241 | 8.3 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,191 | 5.7 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,609 | 5.0 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,713 | 10.6 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,111 | 5.7 |
| 1915 | 14 | #2,180 | 14.2 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,351 | 7.9 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,633 | 12.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Goldy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Goldy has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Goldy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Goldy, and how old are they?
1,560 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 1,666 Americans ever recorded as Goldy. The median Goldy alive today is 13 years old; half are between 5 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 1,204 people named Goldy (1,147 women and girls, 57 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,110 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 8 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 46 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 173 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 528 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 809 |
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 Goldy born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 81 | #212 | 12.1× |
Where Goldy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Goldy is most over-represented in New York: since 1911 it was given 12.1 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 Goldy 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, Goldy is the fourth most given (3.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 94 of their 628 babies (15%), the second 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 Goldy
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 Goldy and names like it
- Compare Goldy and GoldieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sGoldy peaked in 2023.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Goldy since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Goldy.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Goldy alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.