Girl · English and Yiddish
Goldie
Say it: GOHL-dee
Meaning
From English gold, and as an English form of Yiddish Golde, also 'gold'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Used by Jewish and other American families from the late 1800s.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1900s
In the United States
- 36,983 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1904, about 1 in 537 girls
- 241 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
Famous bearers
- Goldie Hawn, American actress
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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