Goldie

Where Goldie comes from

From gold + -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Goldie
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #326 among girls — 24 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1905
    Peak, #114
    548 babies named Goldie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1933
    Goldie Hill born
    American musician
  4. 1937
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #400.
  5. 1983
    Goldie Harvey born
    Nigerian singer
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from English for a girl with golden hair, mostly American usage around 1900. It was further popularized by actress Goldie Hawn
  • A male or female given name from English for a golden-colored dog or bird
Namesakes
  • Goldie Hill · American musician, 1933–2005
  • Goldie Harvey · Nigerian singer, 1983–2013
  • Goldie Sayers · British javelin thrower, born 1982
  • Goldie Steinberg · female supercentenarian, 1900–2015
  • Goldie Loc · American rapper, born 1980

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.