The Goldin surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,393 people carried this name — #19,398 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 212,800 people counted. That is down 20% from 1,738 in 2000.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 315 people named Goldin live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in City of Buenos Aires.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 60 people named Goldin.
16 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 10 départements, most often Paris.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
28 people named Goldin live in Switzerland.
They live in 6 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Basel-Stadt.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In print
Goldin in American newspapers,
1903–1921.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 8,694 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Goldin,
with a public archive behind them.
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Ezra Goldin 1868–1915 · writer -
Mitty Goldin 1895–1956 · impresario -
Sidney M. Goldin 1878–1937 · screenwriter
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Max Goldin 1917–2009 · composer
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Godfrey Goldin 1919–1943 · Australian rules football player
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Rafail Goldin 1920–1994 · film director
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 7 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Goldin.
- Golay 749 · U.S. census
- Gold 18,698 · U.S. census
- Goldberg 29,603 · U.S. census
- Goldenberg 3,561 · U.S. census
- Golder 1,897 · U.S. census
- Goldfarb 3,480 · U.S. census
- Goldman 23,940 · U.S. census
- Goldmann 452 · U.S. census
- Goldschmidt 1,680 · U.S. census
- Goldstein 29,938 · U.S. census
- Gole 292 · U.S. census
- Golebiewski 475 · U.S. census
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