Golda

Golda: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“gold”
Origin
Yiddish
Say it
GOHL-duh · 2 syllables
Used for
Girls

Golda comes through Yiddish, from the Germanic word for 'gold'. A well-known bearer is Golda Meir, the Israeli prime minister.

How popular is Golda?

202419.5 per million US babies
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Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Golda in 202465

2024 rank#2,649 girls

Peak year1894

Total US babies since 18806,365

Golda is rising: use over the last five years is 1.9× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Golda

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

Golda questions

What does the name Golda mean?

Golda means "gold". It comes from Yiddish. Golda comes through Yiddish, from the Germanic word for 'gold'. A well-known bearer is Golda Meir, the Israeli prime minister.

Is Golda a boy or girl name?

Golda is mainly a girl's name in US records (100% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Golda?

65 US babies were named Golda in 2024. Its peak year was 1894.

How do you pronounce Golda?

Golda is usually pronounced GOHL-duh.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.