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Around the globe, Goulding (高登 , Goulding , ゴールディング) is a rare masculine forename. The first name Goulding is characteristic of Eastern Asia, particularly China, where it is a very rare masculine name. More frequently, Goulding is the last name as well as the forename.
Goulding is also a popular name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Gordon Freeman , the fictional protagonist of the Half Life video game series, Half-Life 2; ALF , the fictional character, ALF; Gordon Plankton , the fictional character in SpongeBob SquarePants; member of the Plankton family; Gordon Gekko , the the main antagonist of the 1987 film Wall Street and the antihero of its 2010 sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and Gordon Schell , the character in the TV series Law & Order, and in many other works.