# Goldie (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/goldie/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 38,996 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 443 / 38,553 (99% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 392, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From gold + -ie.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 38 | 3,942 |
| 2012 | 39 | 3,946 |
| 2013 | 52 | 3,139 |
| 2014 | 75 | 2,424 |
| 2015 | 79 | 2,345 |
| 2016 | 118 | 1,763 |
| 2017 | 130 | 1,659 |
| 2018 | 140 | 1,550 |
| 2019 | 163 | 1,381 |
| 2020 | 245 | 1,025 |
| 2021 | 311 | 877 |
| 2022 | 345 | 814 |
| 2023 | 423 | 687 |
| 2024 | 453 | 649 |
| 2025 | 469 | 621 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 7 | 2,973 |
| 1941 | 7 | 2,982 |
| 1944 | 8 | 2,722 |
| 1945 | 6 | 3,128 |
| 1947 | 5 | 3,947 |
| 1953 | 5 | 4,023 |
| 1957 | 5 | 4,205 |
| 1974 | 8 | 3,967 |
| 1975 | 8 | 4,079 |
| 1976 | 8 | 4,152 |
| 1978 | 7 | 4,714 |
| 1979 | 8 | 4,568 |
| 1982 | 6 | 5,904 |
| 1997 | 6 | 8,533 |
| 2022 | 8 | 9,286 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | 3,936 |
| 2010 | 4 | 4,688 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3,681 |
| 2014 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2015 | 3 | 5,730 |
| 2016 | 7 | 3,214 |
| 2017 | 10 | 2,502 |
| 2018 | 13 | 2,090 |
| 2019 | 13 | 2,040 |
| 2020 | 18 | 1,618 |
| 2021 | 41 | 860 |
| 2022 | 37 | 940 |
| 2023 | 53 | 677 |
| 2024 | 62 | 625 |
| 2025 | 89 | 451 |

## People named Goldie

- Goldie Hill, American musician
- Goldie Sayers, British javelin thrower
- Goldie Steinberg, female supercentenarian

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.