Goldy
Feminine · “gold”
Goldy is Golde in Yiddish — gold — and it is the name of Tevye's wife in Sholem Aleichem's stories.
How old is the name Goldy?
Goldy first appears in US birth records in 1911 — 114 years ago. The typical Goldy alive today was born around 2012, making them about 13 years old. About 1,600 people named Goldy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Goldy most popular?
Goldy peaked in 2023, reaching #2002 nationally. Today it ranks #2017, 15 places below that high. See the whole 2023 chart.
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Where it comes from
From gold to Goldy
The story of Goldy
Golde is Tevye's wife in the Sholem Aleichem stories that became Fiddler on the Roof, and Golda Meir led Israel through the Yom Kippur War. Yiddish naming used color and material words freely — Golde, Perl, Reyzl. Goldy appears in American records, especially in Orthodox communities, and is in current use.
Meaning
gold
From the Yiddish gold, cognate with the German Gold and the English gold. Golde and Golda were ordinary Ashkenazi given names built on the word. The -y ending is an English affectionate spelling. The etymology is transparent and undisputed.
How the name formed
- gold
- Golde
- Goldy
Related forms: גאָלדע · Golda · Goldie
Pronouncing Goldy
GOL-dee
Two syllables, stress on the first. Goldy and Goldie are homophones.
Nicknames for Goldy
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
- 1911
- Most girls named
- 202594 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2002reached in 2023
- Change vs 2024
- +32.4%94 in 2025, from 71
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.
Goldy in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- גאָלדע in Yiddish — transliteration
- Golda in Hebrew — related form
- Goldie in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York.
Goldys among us
people named Goldy are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 17,099 born in 2025 was named Goldy
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Infinity test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Goldy's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Infinity climbed just as high around 1997, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Infinity's path sketches the road Goldy is walking now.
Goldy sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Goldy is headed
Goldy should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Goldy beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Goldy in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The gold meaning is transparent and needs no explanation anywhere.
- Golda Meir and Tevye's wife are two very different kinds of weight.
- Golda is available as a fuller and more formal version.
- Goldie is the commoner English spelling.
- It reads as specifically Ashkenazi and often Orthodox.
- The -y ending reads as a diminutive rather than a full name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Goldys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,600 people named Goldy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Goldy in 2025?
- Goldy ranks #2017 among US girl names in 2025, with 94 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Goldy?
- About 1 in every 17,099 US girls born in 2025 was named Goldy — 94 in all.
- Will my child share the name Goldy with classmates?
- Goldy will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Goldy
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
Naima#2017 · Melodie#2017 · Kylani#2017 · Bryn#2017 · Kamilah#2017 · Diamond#2017 · Alyna#2017 · Zion#2017
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