Goldey
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from an Old English female name, Goldgifu, which is not independently attested but is found as an element of place names
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈɡoʊɫdi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Goldey is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 894K(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 894K (inferred from the name graph)
372 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from an Old English female name, Goldgifu, which is not independently attested but is found as an element of place names.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Goldey 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 | 372 | 1 in 894K | 392 | — | 4 |
| IN India | — | — | — | Goldey | 10 |
372 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 392 | #56,329 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 389 | #50,468 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 372 | #55,255 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Goldey mean, and where does it come from?
- from an Old English female name, Goldgifu, which is not independently attested but is found as an element of place names. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Goldey?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡoʊɫdi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Goldey have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 372 people named Goldey, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Goldey most common?
- Goldey is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 894 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Goldey?
- In the United States, the national register counted 372 people named Goldey in 2010, about 1 in 894 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/goldeyThe 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, “Goldey”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.