Family name origins & meanings
- English : from the late Old English personal name Golding, in form a patronymic from Golda (see Gold 4).
- German : patronymic from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with gold, guld ‘gold’, ‘bright’.
- Jewish (from Latvia and Lithuania) : habitational name from Golding, the German and Yiddish name of the city of Kuldīga in Latvia.