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The GOLD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 18,237 1810 0.007 68
United States (1880 census) 1,523 3792 0.003 30
Change since 1880 +16714 +1982 +0.004 +38
Other Countries
Australia 522 3079 0.003 32
United Kingdom 2,744 2266 0.006 60
Top States for GOLD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 2,806 511 0.015 148
California 2,333 1261 0.007 69
Florida 1,732 1065 0.011 108
New Jersey 1,154 633 0.014 137
Pennsylvania 1,059 1201 0.009 86
Top States for GOLD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 2,806 511 0.015 148
New Jersey 1,154 633 0.014 137
Connecticut 422 850 0.012 124
Washington DC 63 928 0.011 110
Florida 1,732 1065 0.011 108

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called GOLD live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called GOLD represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called GOLD in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a GOLD by picking someone at random in New York than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of GOLD

Language of origin: Hebrew

Religious origin: Jewish

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GOLD surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of GOLD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 697 3.82
White (Hispanic) 398 2.18
Mixed Race 241 1.32
Asian/Pacific 117 0.64
Native American/Alaskan 44 0.24
White (Caucasian) 16,743 91.81

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the GOLD surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of GOLD in historical publications

GOLD. A personal or baptismal name. Golde and Goldus occur in Domesd., and Gold, in the H.R., had become a surname. Asa baptismal name it was in use in the XIV. cent., when Gold le Blodleter is found as the designation of an inhabitant of Yarmouth. Papers Norf. Arch. Soc. iv, 253,

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to GOLD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GOLD.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for GOLD

The following words are slight variants of GOLD that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.