Goldén
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Goldén is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English golden, a restored form (due to the noun gold) of earlier Middle English gulden, gylden, gilden ("golden"; > English gilden), from Old English gylden (“golden”), from Proto-West Ge.
- USUnited States1 in 6.7K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 8.5K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 491 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
49,360 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Chad, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Golden in US United States, CA Canada, GB United Kingdom and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Middle Englishgolden(measured from records)
- Old Englishgylden“golden”(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*gulþīn(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*gulþīnaz“golden“golden, made of gold”(measured from records)
From Middle English golden, a restored form (due to the noun gold) of earlier Middle English gulden, gylden, gilden ("golden"; > English gilden), from Old English gylden (“golden”), from Proto-West Germanic *gulþīn, from Proto-Germanic *gulþīnaz (“golden, made of gold”), equivalent to gold + -en. Cognate with Dutch gouden, gulden (“golden”), German gülden, golden (“golden”), Danish gylden (“golden”). Doublet of gilden. More at gold.
Sources 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
- Wiktionary
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Goldén counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 49,360 | 1 in 6.7K | 49K | Golden | 491 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 9K | listed | Golden | 175 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Golden | 43 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Golden | 45 |
| IT Italy | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 1 | — | 16 |
| CA Canada | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | 2 | Golden | 133 |
| TD Chad | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Golden | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | — | Golden | 27 |
49,360 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Goldén mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English golden, a restored form (due to the noun gold) of earlier Middle English gulden, gylden, gilden ("golden"; > English gilden), from Old English gylden (“golden”), from Proto-West Ge… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Goldén have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 49 thousand people named Goldén, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled golden.
- How common is the name Goldén?
- In the United States, the national register counted 49,360 people named Goldén in 2010, about 1 in 6.7 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Goldén?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gold%C3%A9nThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Goldén”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.