Goldia
Feminine · “gold”
Golda is a Yiddish name and one of a set. Yiddish took its women's names from precious and pleasant things far more readily than from scripture — a pearl, a bird, a rose, a little gold — and produced a stock of names that are ordinary vocabulary words to anybody who speaks the language.
How old is the name Goldia?
Goldia first appears in US birth records in 1884 — 141 years ago. The typical Goldia alive today was born around 1918, making them about 107 years old. About 200 people named Goldia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Goldia most popular?
Goldia peaked in 1910, reaching #663 nationally. See the whole 1910 chart.
Where it comes from
From Golda to Goldia
The story of Goldia
The classical ending is doing something specific to a word-name. Gold on its own is a noun and reads as one; adding an -ia produces something that looks like Julia and Cornelia and Sophia, and the word stops being a word. English has done this repeatedly — the same instinct produced Pearlia and Rubia and a small crowd of others in the same decades — and it is the visual equivalent of the -ie ending that turns a common noun into a person. One is a Latin costume and the other an English one, and both are covering the same thing.
Meaning
gold
The Yiddish word, which is the same as the German and the English. It was given as a name in its own right rather than as a translation of a Hebrew one, which distinguishes it from a great many Jewish names.
How the name formed
- Golda
- Goldie
- Goldia
Related forms: Golda
Pronouncing Goldia
GOLD-ee-uh
Three syllables with the stress at the front. The added ending contributes a full beat, which the plain form does not have.
Nicknames for Goldia
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1884
- Most girls named
- 191871 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #663reached in 1910
- Change vs 1958
- 0.0%6 in 1959, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Goldia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Golda in Yiddish — same name
Goldias among us
people named Goldia are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Goldia sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The meaning is concrete, warm and understood by anybody on sight.
- Goldie stands behind it as a completely established short form.
- It belongs to a real and documented naming tradition.
- Golda and Goldie are both commoner and get substituted.
- The Latin ending is borrowed and the name has no classical descent.
- The generation that used it is now very old.
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Frequently asked
- How many Goldias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 200 people named Goldia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Goldia in 2025?
- Goldia is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Goldia with classmates?
- Goldia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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