Golder
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘dweller at the bank where marigolds grow’ (OE golde, ōra); first attested Matthew de Goldore 1275 RH (Herts)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Golder is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 66K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 70K
- USUnited States1 in 175K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 266 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 66K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,900 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
‘dweller at the bank where marigolds grow’ (OE golde, ōra); first attested Matthew de Goldore 1275 RH (Herts)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Golder 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 176K | — | Golder | 2 |
| US United States | 1,897 | 1 in 175K | 1.9K | Golder | 266 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Golder | 124 |
| AU Australia | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Golder | 77 |
| PL Poland | 249 | 1 in 154K | 127 | — | — |
| CA Canada | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 158K | — | Golder | 34 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Golder | 35 |
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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Golder is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from OE *Goldhere ‘gold-army’; first attested Henricus filius Goldere 1197 P (Ess)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, comparative form of gold: more gold
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Berufsname zu mhd. golder 'Vergolder'; ggf. Assimilation zu 'Vergolder'. Bearer count: 133.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Frank A. Golderb. 1877USAmerican historian (1877–1929)
- Benjamin M. Golderb. 1891USAmerican politician (1891-1946)
- Lorraine Elliottb. 1943AUnot in their usual nameAustralian politician
- Tom Golderb. 1944Australian field hockey player
- Douglas Golderb. 1948AUAustralian field hockey player
- Jimmy Golderb. 1955GBEnglish footballer (1955-2000)
- Jamie Golderb. 1962USAmerican female tennis player
- Gabriela Golderb. 1971ARartist (born 1971)
- Scott Golderb. 1976NZNew Zealand cricketer
- Herbert GolderUSAmerican screenwriter and academic
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.9K | #15,442 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.8K | #15,299 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,171 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 127 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 127 | #24,205 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 122 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 122 | #25,495 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Golder mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘dweller at the bank where marigolds grow’ (OE golde, ōra); first attested Matthew de Goldore 1275 RH (Herts) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Golder have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.9 thousand people named Golder in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled golder.
- How common is the name Golder?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,897 people named Golder in 2010, about 1 in 175 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/golderThe 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, “Golder”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.