Explore the Family Name Goold

The meaning of Goold

English: variant of Gold.

Dictionary of American Family Names, 2nd edition, © Oxford University Press, 2022.

How common is the last name Goold in the United States?

Based on the Decennial U.S. Census data, the popularity of the surname 'Goold' saw a slight decline between 2000 and 2010. In 2000, it ranked as the 25,484th most common surname, but had slipped to the 26,671st spot by 2010, marking a 4.66% decrease in its ranking. Despite this drop in ranking, the actual count of individuals with the surname modestly increased from 911 in 2000 to 913 in 2010, reflecting a 0.22% growth. However, when measured per 100k people, the presence of the surname dropped by 8.82%, indicating that its overall proportion within the total population had slightly decreased.

	2000	2010	Change
Rank	#25,484	#26,671	-4.66%
Count	911	913	0.22%
Proportion per 100k	0.34	0.31	-8.82%

Race and Ethnicity of people with the last name Goold

As for the ethnic identity associated with the Goold surname, there were some significant changes observed between 2000 and 2010 according to the Decennial U.S. Census data. The majority of bearers of the surname identified as White, although this percentage declined from 94.95% in 2000 to 92.55% in 2010. Meanwhile, the percentage identifying as Hispanic saw a substantial increase, more than doubling from 1.43% to 3.40%. Individuals of Asian/Pacific Islander and American Indian and Alaskan Native ethnicity started to appear in the statistics, though they made up less than 1% of the total. Those identifying as part of two or more races increased by 27.92%, while those identifying as Black decreased by 44.44%.

	2000	2010	Change
White	94.95%	92.55%	-2.53%
Hispanic	1.43%	3.4%	137.76%
Two or More Races	1.54%	1.97%	27.92%
Asian/Pacific Islander	0%	0.88%	0%
American Indian and Alaskan Native	0%	0.66%	0%
Black	0.99%	0.55%	-44.44%