Golding

5,166 people in the United States were counted with the surname Golding in the 2020 census, making it the 6,330th most common in the country. That is about one person in 57,900.

By the numbers

People: 5,166
Rank: 6,330th
How common: 1 in 57,900
Per 100,000: 1.7

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 71.5%
Black, not Hispanic 19.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%

Notable people called Golding

William Golding (1911–1993)British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate
Henry Golding (born 1987)British actor
Bruce Golding (born 1947)Jamaican politician; Prime Minister of Jamaica
Meta Golding (born 1971)American actress
Anders Golding (born 1984)Danish sport shooter
Arthur Golding (1536–1606)16th-century English linguist and translator
Oliver Golding (born 1993)British professional tennis player and child actor

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

Surnames like Golding

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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.