Golda
Golda is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 65 births. Its best rank was 295th, in 1894.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 650.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1915158 births
- Best rank
- #295in 1894
- Since 1880
- 6,365people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,365 girls have been named Golda in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 158 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1921, and the 1910s alone account for 19%. It has spent 55 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Golda | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 219 | |
| 1890s | 703 | |
| 1900s | 882 | |
| 1910s | 1,241 | |
| 1920s | 937 | |
| 1930s | 493 | |
| 1940s | 258 | |
| 1950s | 159 | |
| 1960s | 92 | |
| 1970s | 121 | |
| 1980s | 172 | |
| 1990s | 156 | |
| 2000s | 260 | |
| 2010s | 376 | |
| 2020s | 296 |
In 1915, its biggest year
Golda was the 489th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1915 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Golda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Flossiepeak 1919
- Goldiepeak 1915
- Eurapeak 1920
- Erapeak 1916
- Maudiepeak 1918
- Friedapeak 1916
- Iciepeak 1915
- Mossiepeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.