Goldstone
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name for someone from a place in Shropshire named Goldstone, from the genitive case of the Old English personal name Golda (see Gold 4) + Old English Stan ‘stone’; or from one in Kent, re
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɡoʊɫdˌstoʊn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Goldstone is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
habitational name for someone from a place in Shropshire named Goldstone, from the genitive case of the Old English personal name Golda (see Gold 4) + Old English Stan ‘stone’; or from one in Kent, recorded in the early 13th century as Goldstanestun ‘settlement (Old English tun) of Goldstdn'.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Goldstone counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1K | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 1 | — |
| EE Estonia | — | listed | — |
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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Goldstone 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.
from the Old English personal name Goldstdn, composed of the elements gold ‘gold’ -F Stan ‘stone’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Americanization of Ashkenazic Goldstein.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A placename
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Phil Goldstoneb. 1893USfilm director (1893–1963)
- Lawrence Treatb. 1903USnot in their usual nameAmerican writer (1903-1998)
- Richard Goldstoneb. 1912producer, writer, director (1912-2007)
- James Goldstoneb. 1931USAmerican film and television director (1931-1999)
- Jeffrey Goldstoneb. 1933GBBritish theoretical physicist
- Richard Goldstoneb. 1938ZASouth African former judge
- Jack Goldstoneb. 1953USAmerican academic
- Rob Goldstoneb. 1960GBBritish journalist
- Gary Goldstoneb. 1976ZAAssociation footballer
- Bruce Goldstonewriter
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1K | #24,874 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 947 | #24,701 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 937 | #27,268 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #203,137 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Goldstone mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name for someone from a place in Shropshire named Goldstone, from the genitive case of the Old English personal name Golda (see Gold 4) + Old English Stan ‘stone’; or from one in Kent, re… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Goldstone?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡoʊɫdˌstoʊn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Goldstone have the most bearers?
- Goldstone is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Goldstone?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/goldstoneThe 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, “Goldstone”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.