girls:
2.2k births since 1884
#3670 (36th percentile)
boys:
2.8k births since 1880
#2363 (48th percentile)
overall:
5k births since 1880
#3847 (50th percentile)
The name Golden is the #3,847 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,036 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 50.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 50.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,363 (48.4% percentile) for all time with 2,837 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #3,670 (35.8% percentile) for all time with 2,199 births since 1884.
Golden has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1884 for girls). Birth data for Golden is available in 143 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (140 years for boys and 124 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Golden has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (56.3% of all recorded births). In 2023, 55.4% of babies named Golden were boys.
For boys, Golden reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 11.4% percentile (ranked #474) with 65 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 147 births per million (ranked 7.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2009, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Golden ranks #849 for boys (6.8% percentile) with 37 births per million, which is 24.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Golden reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 9.6% percentile (ranked #537) with 53 births per million. The name was most common in 1903, with 93 births per million (ranked 6.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2012, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Golden ranks #898 for girls (5.2% percentile) with 31 births per million, which is 33.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Golden".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Golden. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Golden is pronounced as GOHL-duhn, which has 2 syllables.
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