[6] The English expression good as gold is often used to describe people who act virtuously and, in the case of children, are well-behaved.

[7] Names given in reference to gold such as Golda and Golde were popular for Yiddish-speaking Jews in Eastern Europe and also began to be used more widely in the United States after immigrants from that cultural group arrived there in large numbers between 1880 and 1925.

The name Goldie has also been widely used in the Anglosphere for other cultural groups, often inspired by literary, film, television, or popular culture references such as Sweet Girl Goldie: A Wonder Story of Butterfly Time, an 1884 butterfly-shaped children's book by American author and illustrator Lizbeth Bullock Humphrey about a little girl named Goldie who frees her uncle's butterfly collection; Little Goldie, or the Child of the Camp, an 1893 play by Charles O. Willard about a girl who turns out to be a mining heiress; Goldie’s Inheritance: A Story of the Siege of Atlanta, a 1903 historical novel by Louisa M. Whitney, based on the true story of her sister who helped Union soldiers escape from a Confederate prison during the American Civil War; and Goldie Green, a 1922 American film about Goldie, a 19-year-old theater manager who supports her parents and siblings and chooses to marry the penniless man she loves instead of a wealthy attorney.

Goldie Griffith (1893–1976) was an American bronco rider in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show whose 1913 marriage in the middle of a performance at Madison Square Garden received media coverage.

Later influences included American country singer Goldie Hill (1933–2005), who had a 1953 hit song called I Let the Stars Get in My Eyes, and American actress Goldie Hawn (born 1945), whose popularity in the 1970s and 1980s also increased interest in the name.