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Goldsmith


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Origin Of The Surname Goldsmith

Meaning Of The Surname Goldsmith

Gold Worker

Interesting Facts About Goldsmith

Goldsmith is an occupational name that would have been given to a person who worked with gold and from this we can deduce that the originally bearer was rather wealthy. The surname come from the Old English ‘gold’ which has remained unchanged and ‘smith’ from ‘smitan’ which meant to shape with a hammer. Oliver Goldsmith the Anglo-Irish writer is a famous bearer of this surname.

Goldsmith Statistics

Goldsmith is the number 980 ranked surname in the United Kingdom. According to our statistics around 9,949 share the surname Goldsmith in the UK.

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