Gold

Gold is the 1,888th most common surname in the United States, shared by 18,661 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 16,000.

By the numbers

People: 18,661
Rank: 1,888th
How common: 1 in 16,000
Per 100,000: 6.2

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Gold described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 87.2%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
Black, not Hispanic 4.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Gold

Thomas Gold (1920–2004)Austrian astrophysicist
Marian Gold (born 1954)German musician
Tracey Gold (born 1969)American actress
Murray Gold (born 1969)British composer
Gracie Gold (born 1995)American figure skater
Mike Gold (1893–1967)American journalist
Adekunle Gold (born 1987)Nigerian singer
Ernest Gold (1921–1999)Austrian American composer

People named Gold with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Gold

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.