Golden
Golden is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 49 births. Its best rank was 493rd, in 1898.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 490.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 202367 births
- Best rank
- #493in 1898
- Since 1880
- 5,133people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,886 boys have been named Golden in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2023, with 67 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 1940, and the 1920s alone account for 16%. It has spent 37 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Golden is used for both sexes: 44% of its bearers are girls (2,247), most of them born around 1919.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Golden | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 56 | |
| 1890s | 87 | |
| 1900s | 148 | |
| 1910s | 409 | |
| 1920s | 451 | |
| 1930s | 284 | |
| 1940s | 189 | |
| 1950s | 174 | |
| 1960s | 90 | |
| 1970s | 150 | |
| 1980s | 126 | |
| 1990s | 95 | |
| 2000s | 121 | |
| 2010s | 259 | |
| 2020s | 247 |
In 2023, its biggest year
Golden was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2023 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, James and Elijah. See all of 2023.
Names that rose and fell with Golden
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Buckpeak 1919
- Obiepeak 1924
- Elmorepeak 1918
- Forestpeak 2022
- Noblepeak 1920
- Otispeak 1920
- Odiepeak 1918
- Oswaldpeak 1916
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.