Goldman
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Goldman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from OE Goldmann, recorded on an Essex coin c1066; first attested Adam Goldeman 1297 SRY.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 6.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 13K
- USUnited States1 in 14K
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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 471 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.5K (inferred from the name graph)
23,940 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Israel, 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)
from OE Goldmann, recorded on an Essex coin c1066; first attested Adam Goldeman 1297 SRY
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Goldman 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 | #983 | 23,940 | 1 in 14K | 24K | Goldman | 471 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Goldman | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Goldman | 160 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Goldman | 157 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Goldman | 9 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Goldman | 101 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Goldman | 30 |
23,940 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 2000. 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)
Goldman 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.
metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Golde.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, Emma, US anarchist
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
variant of Gold.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Marcus Goldmanb. 1821USAmerican banker (1821-1904)
- Emma Goldmanb. 1869LTRussian-born American anarchist (1869–1940)
- James Goldmanb. 1927USAmerican screenwriter, playwright, novelist (1927-1998)
- William Goldmanb. 1931USAmerican novelist, screenwriter and playwright (1931-2018)
- Bo Goldmanb. 1932USAmerican screenwriter (1932–2023)
- Dianne Feinsteinb. 1933USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician (1933–2023)
- Gary Goldmanb. 1944USAmerican film director and producer (born 1944)
- Jean-Jacques Goldmanb. 1951FRFrench musician and record producer
- Gary Goldmanb. 1953USAmerican screenwriter
- Jane Goldmanb. 1970GBEnglish screenwriter, author and producer (1970-)
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 34 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 24K | #1,348 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 24K | #1,495 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 23K | #1,536 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Goldman mean, and where does it come from?
- from OE Goldmann, recorded on an Essex coin c1066; first attested Adam Goldeman 1297 SRY Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Goldman have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 24 thousand people named Goldman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled goldman.
- How common is the name Goldman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 23,940 people named Goldman in 2010, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Goldman compared with other names?
- In the United States, Goldman is the 983rd most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Goldman” — the 983rd most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.