Golly is used as a family name or surname in Cornish British. It is 5 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Golly
No. of characters: 5
Origin: Cornish British
Meaning: The bottom, or low place

How popular is Golly?

Golly is common in Ivory Coast.

Golly is ranked 127820 on our list.

As per 2010 US census, number of Gollies plummeted by 6.366048 per cent to 353 since 2000 and slipped by 5830 spots and ranked at 57639. The last name was found in around 1 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 91.22 88.86
Black 4.82 6.1
Others 1.98 2.92
Golly is not so popular last name but still a prevalent surname concentrated mainly in Ivory Coast which may be its originating country too. Around 3095 people have been found who wears Golly as their family name. Golly is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
16,722 Nigeria8
14,054 China3
44,018 Poland2
50,640 Switzerland2
14,408 Uruguay2
62,864 New Zealand1
13,606 Senegal1
38,063 Mauritania1
26,040 Trinidad and Tobago1
810,193 Indonesia1
2,613 The Bahamas1
49,101 Denmark1
25,721 Egypt1
34,581 Chile1
17,236 Ghana1
31,207 Ireland1
169,904 Brazil1
118,015 Netherlands1
24,771 Colombia1
2,057 Myanmar1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
395,979 India22
155,219 England16
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
66,582 Argentina60
52,053 Canada59
Countries with hundreds of Golly:
51,317 United States515
38,971 France257
43,536 Germany235
Countries with thousands of Golly:
1,358 Ivory Coast1,899
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Immigrants to US

From Ireland

Pat Golly was 23 years old when he migrated to USA during Irish famine on May 15, 1851. He lived in Ireland where he worked as workman and took Celeste from Galway.

Comments

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Lorrine Cohen
 golly is a family name, probably represents the Latinized form of the old french gole throat, mouth, often with a topographical sense, denotes a narrow passage, domain name or locality situated near a gorge.

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