Entry № 3740 · 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)".

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.

Gold (Golda Meir, Israeli prime minister) — a Yiddish name.

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.