Entry № 3731 · Yiddish origin

Golda Golda — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ GOHL-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Yiddish
Meaning
"Gold (Golda Meir, Israeli prime minister)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Yiddish)

A name that means "gold (golda meir, israeli prime minister)".

Golda (גאָלדע) is the Yiddish word for "gold." Golda Meir (1898-1978) — born Golda Mabovitch in Kyiv — was the fourth Prime Minister of Israel (1969-1974) and the first and only female Israeli PM. One of only 24 signatories of the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948. Led Israel through the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Time magazine called her "the best man in the government" during her tenure; she famously responded that Moses had told the wandering Jews about the one place in the Middle East without oil.

Subject of countless biographies including Francine Klagsbrun's Lioness (2017).

Gold. Only female Israeli PM; Time magazine called her 'the best man in the government.'

The name in its native script.

גאָלדע
Transliteration
Golda
Pronunciation
/ ˈɡoʊl.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Golda stands.

Golda does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Goldas before her.

Real people
Golda Meir
Fourth PM of Israel.
1898 – 1978
In fiction
Golda
Subject of Golda.
2023 film

Names connected to Golda.

The number behind Golda.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Golda reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.