Goldin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Golde
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɡoʊɫdɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Goldin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 192K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 239K
- ILIsrael≈1 in 52K
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)
- Sources
- 280 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 52K (inferred from the name graph)
1,393 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Golde.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Goldin 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 | 1,393 | 1 in 239K | 1.7K | Goldin | 280 |
| BR Brazil | 908 | 1 in 233K | 908 | — | 3 |
| IT Italy | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Goldin | 34 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 192K | — | Goldin | 81 |
| AR Argentina | 315 | 1 in 144K | 315 | — | 2 |
| IL Israel | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Goldin | 53 |
| HR Croatia | 75 | 1 in 56K | 75 | — | — |
| LA Laos | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 103K | — | Goldin | 2 |
| EE Estonia | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 100K | 10 | Goldin | 3 |
1,393 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 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)
Goldin 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.
In English, The golding, or corn marigold.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Faroese, past participle of gjalda
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vo, gold
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)
- Ezra Goldinb. 1868BYHebrew author and poet
- Max Goldinb. 1917LVLatvian Jewish musician (1917-2009)
- Sergey Goldinb. 1936RURussian geophysicist (1936-2007)
- Harrison J. Goldinb. 1936USAmerican politician in New York (born 1936)
- Daniel Goldinb. 1940USAmerican engineer
- Claudia Goldinb. 1946USAmerican economist; Nobel prize winner
- Nan Goldinb. 1953USAmerican photographer (born 1953)
- Alexander Goldinb. 1964USRussian-American chess player
- Semen Golʹdinb. 1967ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli historian
- Hadar Goldinb. 1991ILIsraeli officer (1991-2014)
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 29 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,039 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #15,470 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,398 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 908 | #10,137 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 315 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 75 | #9,908 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 65 | — |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 10 | #10,905 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 8 | #12,496 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Goldin mean, and where does it come from?
- metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Golde. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Goldin?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡoʊɫdɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Goldin have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Goldin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled goldin.
- How common is the name Goldin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,393 people named Goldin in 2010, about 1 in 239 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/goldinThe 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, “Goldin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.