Goulding
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the late Old English personal name Golding
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɡuɫdɪŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Goulding is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 20K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 26K
- CACanada≈1 in 53K
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 Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 287 (measured from records)
- 1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the late Old English personal name Golding.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Goulding 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 20K | listed | Goulding | 172 |
| US United States | 2,393 | 1 in 139K | 2.4K | Goulding | 287 |
| AU Australia | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Goulding | 122 |
| CA Canada | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Goulding | 131 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 179K | — | Goulding | 19 |
| IE Ireland | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Goulding | 69 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Goulding | 41 |
| GY Guyana | 38 | 1 in 20K | 38 | — | 1 |
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; the bbc-pronouncing-dictionary-british-names register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Grantley Gouldingb. 1874GBBritish track and field athlete (1874-1947)
- George Gouldingb. 1884CACanadian athletics competitor (1884–1966)
- Alfred J. Gouldingb. 1885AUAmerican film director (1885–1972)
- Edmund Gouldingb. 1891GBBritish director and screenwriter (1891–1959)
- Ray Gouldingb. 1922USAmerican actor and comedian (1922-1990)
- Marrack Gouldingb. 1936GBBritish diplomat, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Richard Gouldingb. 1981GBBritish actor
- Jeff Gouldingb. 1984GBFootballer (born 1984)
- Ellie Gouldingb. 1986GBEnglish singer and songwriter (born 1986)
- Chris Gouldingb. 1988AUAustralian basketball player (born 1988)
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 22 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.4K | #12,865 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.3K | #12,524 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.3K | #12,967 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 38 | #587 |
| GB United Kingdom | BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Goulding mean, and where does it come from?
- from the late Old English personal name Golding. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Goulding?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡuɫdɪŋ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Goulding have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named Goulding in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled goulding.
- Where is Goulding most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Goulding is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 20 thousand people — even though United Kingdom holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Goulding?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,393 people named Goulding in 2010, about 1 in 139 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gouldingThe 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, “Goulding”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.