Golden

Where Golden comes from

* As an English surname, from the adjective golden. * As an Irish surname, from mag Ualghairg; see McGoldrick.
— Wiktionary's entry for Golden
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #745 among boys — 7 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1898
    Peak, #485
    18 babies named Golden — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1899
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #857.
  4. 2019
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
  • A male given name.
Namesakes

No widely known Golden turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.